Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several enzymes, such as endonucleases and exonucleases, that hydrolize nucleic acids.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ferment which can cause the cleavage of nucleins. Specifically
- noun One of several bacteriolytic ferments so-named on account of their ability to digest the nucleoproteids of the bacterial cells.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biochemistry Any of several
enzymes capable of cleaving thephosphodiester bonds between thenucleotide subunits ofnucleic acids .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units
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Examples
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The enzyme, which they named FAN1, appears to be a nuclease, which is capable of slicing through strands of DNA.
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The enzyme, which they named FAN1, appears to be a nuclease, which is capable of slicing through strands of DNA.
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Support for a particulate substructure of chromatin came from electron microscopy and from nuclease digestion and sedimentation analysis.
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It was also demonstrated that a ribonuclease III-like nuclease, called Dicer, is responsible for the processing of dsRNA to short RNA34.
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An RNA-directed nuclease mediates post-transcriptional gene silencing in Drosophila cells.
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Each finger binds to a specific combination of DNA bases and is attached to a DNA-cutting enzyme called a nuclease.
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Each finger binds to a specific combination of DNA bases and is attached to a DNA-cutting enzyme called a nuclease.
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The micrococcal nuclease calcium dependence was put to good use by Hugh Pelham, a graduate student in the lab, who developed the use of nuclease treatment of the lysate to assay heterologous mRNAs.
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One other thing I learned about during the studies on the inhibition of protein synthesis by dsRNA was that micrococcal nuclease, which requires Ca2+ for activity, did not inhibit protein synthesis in the reticulocyte lysate provided no Ca2+ was present.
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F.A. Cotton, which has determined the three-dimensional structure of nuclease at high resolution.
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