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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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)