Exodeoxyribonuclease III (EC 3.1.11.2, Escherichia coli exonuclease III, E. coli exonuclease III, endoribonuclease III) is an enzyme[1][2][3] that catalyses the following reaction
| Exodeoxyribonuclease III | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| EC no. | 3.1.11.2 | ||||||||
| CAS no. | 9037-44-9 | ||||||||
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| 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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- Exonucleolytic cleavage in the 3′- to 5′-direction to yield nucleoside 5′-phosphates
This enzyme has a preference for double-stranded DNA.
References
edit- ^ Lindahl T, Gally JA, Edelman GM (September 1969). "Properties of deoxyribonuclease 3 from mammalian tissues". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 244 (18): 5014–9. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)94303-6. PMID 5824576.
- ^ Richardson CC, Kornberg A (January 1964). "A deoxyribonucleic acid phosphatase-exonuclease from Escherichia coli. I. Purification of the enzyme and characterization of the phosphatase activity". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 239: 242–50. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)51774-9. PMID 14114850.
- ^ Richardson CC, Lehman IR, Kornberg A (January 1964). "A deoxyribonucleic acid phosphatase-exonuclease from Escherichia coli. II. Characterization of the exonuclease activity". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 239: 251–8. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)51775-0. PMID 14114851.
External links
edit- Exodeoxyribonuclease+III at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
