restriction enzyme

noun

Definitions

  1. An endonuclease that catalyzes double-strand cleavage of DNA containing a specific…

    An endonuclease that catalyzes double-strand cleavage of DNA containing a specific sequence.

    • We now know of 400 different kinds of restriction enzymes, each of which recognises a different sequence of DNA letters and cuts there, like a pair of scissors that cuts the paper only where it finds the word ‘restriction’.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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