restriction enzyme
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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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