Deoxyribonuclease X

Deoxyribonuclease X
Identifiers
EC number 3.1.22.5
CAS number 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

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

Endonucleolytic cleavage of supercoiled plasma DNA to linear DNA duplexes

This enzyme has preference for supercoiled DNA.

References

  1. Ghosh, S.; DasGupta, U. (1984). "Studies with endonuclease X: a new deoxyendonuclease of E. coli that preferentially cleaves supercoiled plasmid DNA". Curr. Trends Life Sci. 12: 79–88.

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