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nickase

noun

Etymology

From nick + -ase.

  1. inherited from nik
  2. suffixed as nickase — “nick + ase”

Definitions

  1. Any enzyme that causes nicks (breaks in one strand) of nucleic acid, allowing it to unwind

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nickase. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA