Nuclease at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Nuclease? An enzyme that breaks down nucleic acids. Exonucleases cleave the nucleotides only at the ends of polynucleotide chains (e.g. phosphodiesterase). Endonucleases attack certain linkates wherever they occur in the polynucleotide chain

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