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endonuclease

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endonuclease /en·do·nu·cle·ase/ (-noo´kle-ās) any nuclease specifically catalyzing the hydrolysis of interior bonds of ribonucleotide or deoxyribonucleotide chains.
restriction endonuclease  an endonuclease that hydrolyzes DNA, cleaving it at an individual site of a specific base pattern.

en·do·nu·cle·ase (nd-nkl-s, -z)
n.
Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of phosphodiester bonds between nucleic acids in a DNA molecule or RNA sequence.

endonuclease,
an enzyme that cleaves or hydrolyzes phosphodiester bonds within a polynucleotide chain. Compare exonuclease.

endonuclease [en″do-noo´kle-ās]
an enzyme that cleaves internal bonds of polynucleotides.
restriction e's enzymes that cleave large DNA molecules at specific sequences of four to six nucleotides. See also recombinant dna technology.

endonuclease
(en´dōnoo´klēās´),
n an enzyme (nuclease) that cleaves polynucleotides at interior bonds, producing polynucleotide or oligonucleotide fragments.

endonuclease
a nuclease that cleaves internal bonds of polynucleotides.

restriction endonuclease


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; NEIL, Nei-like; 5-OHU, 5-hydroxyuracil; NTD, N-terminal domain; NTH1, endonuclease III homolog 1; OGG1, 8-oxoguanine-DNA glycosylase1; PUA, phospho ?
coli protein expression vector using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), restriction endonuclease digestion, and DNA ligation.
2008) greatly facilitated optimization of the key by allowing us to perform virtual restriction endonuclease digestion (VRED) analyses, which saved time by eliminating much of the laboratory-intense trial-and-error usually associated with identifying informative restriction endonucleases.
 
 
 
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