an enzyme which catalyses the hydrolysis of nucleic acids.
An enzyme that degrades a nucleic acid molecule.
An enzyme that breaks bonds in nucleic acids. Deoxyribonuclease (DNAase) and ribonuclease (RNAase).
A class of enzymes that degrade DNA or RNA molecules by cleaving the phospho-diester bonds that link adjacent nucleotides. In deoxyribonuclease (DNase), the substrate is DNA. In endonuclease, it cleaves at internal sites in the substrate molecule. Exonuclease progressively cleaves from the end of the substrate molecule. In ribonuclease (RNase), the substrate is RNA. In the S1 nuclease, the substrate is single-stranded DNA or RNA. Nucleases have varying degrees of base-sequence specificity, the most specific being the restriction endonucleases.
an enzyme that catalyzes the degradation of a nucleic acid by breaking phosphodiester bonds.
general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units
an enzyme which digests DNA or RNA
Any enzyme that cuts nucleic acids. See restriction enzyme.
An enzyme that, by cleaving chemical bonds, breaks down nucleic acids into their constituent nucleotides. See also Exonuclease.
an enzyme (or group of enzymes) which split nucleic acids into different products.
enzymes that split nucleic acids into nucleotides and other substances.
One of the several classes of enzyme s that degrade nucleic acid. An enzyme that can degrade DNA or RNA by breaking phosphodiester bonds. See endonucleases; exonucleases.
enzyme that breaks nucleotides into pentoses and nitrogenous bases; examples are ribonuclease and deoxyribonuclease
Any enzyme that can cleave the sugar-phosphate backbone of a nucleic acid. ( 16)
A nuclease is an enzyme capable of cleaving the phosphodiester bonds between the nucleotide subunits of nucleic acids. Older papers may use terms such as "polynucleotidase" or "nucleodepolymerase"Avery, O.T., MacLeod, C.M., McCarty, M. (1944). Studies on the chemical nature of the substance inducing transformation of pneumococcal types: Induction of transformation by a desoxyribonucleic acid fraction isolated from Pneumococcus type III.