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DNA Cleavage  

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  • Topical Descriptor

Scope note

  • A reaction that severs one of the covalent sugar-phosphate linkages between NUCLEOTIDES that compose the sugar phosphate backbone of DNA. It is catalyzed enzymatically, chemically or by radiation. Cleavage may be exonucleolytic - removing the end nucleotide, or endonucleolytic - splitting the strand in two.

History note

  • 2007

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D053837

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