Deoxyribonuclease X (EC 3.1.22.5, Escherichia coli endodeoxyribonuclease, Escherichia coli endodeoxyribonuclease X) is an enzyme.[1] This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
| Deoxyribonuclease X | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC no. | 3.1.22.5 | ||||||||
| CAS no. | 97002-82-9 | ||||||||
| Databases | |||||||||
| IntEnz | IntEnz view | ||||||||
| BRENDA | BRENDA entry | ||||||||
| ExPASy | NiceZyme view | ||||||||
| KEGG | KEGG entry | ||||||||
| MetaCyc | metabolic pathway | ||||||||
| PRIAM | profile | ||||||||
| PDB structures | RCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum | ||||||||
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- Endonucleolytic cleavage of supercoiled plasma DNA to linear DNA duplexes
This enzyme has preference for supercoiled DNA.
References edit
- ^ DasGupta U, Ghosh S (March 1983). "Identification of a new deoxyendonuclease from Escherichia coli that preferentially cleaves supercoiled plasmid DNA". FEBS Letters. 153 (1): 60–4. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(83)80119-7. PMID 6219007.
External links edit
- Deoxyribonuclease+X at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
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