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cleavage site

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cleavage site
n.
See restriction site.
cleavage
1. division into distinct parts, e.g. the double helix.
2. the early successive splitting of a fertilized ovum into smaller cells (blastomeres) by mitosis. See also holoblastic, meroblastic.
cleavage site
the places on a strand of DNA where the restriction enzyme cleaves the DNA.
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The cleavage site in VP0/VP3 of PAK5045 was identical to that of HPeV2 but not to those of other types.
Genomic characterization of novel human parechovirus type by Li, Linlin; Victoria, Joseph; Kapoor, Amit; Naeem, Asif; Shaukat, Shahzad; Sharif, Salmaan; Alam, Mu / Emerging Infectious Diseases
University of California (Oakland, CA) has patented an isolated polynucleotide sequence encoding a chimeric CD154, comprising a first nucleotide sequence encoding an extracellular subdomain of non-human CD154, preferably murine CD154, that replaces a cleavage site of human CD154, and a second nucleotide sequence encoding an extracellular subdomain of human CD154 that binds to a human CD154 receptor.
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Maturation of the precursor proteins begins by intramolecular cleavage of Gag-Pro-Pol and continues by a process of ordered cleavages governed by differences in the inherent processing rates at each cleavage site (see Figure 3) [14-18] which for HIV Gag can vary up to 400-fold [16,17].
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