Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of DNA.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biochem.) any of numerous enzymes that catalyze the breakdown of DNA into oligonucleotides or mononucleotides.

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  • noun biochemistry deoxyribonuclease

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[DN(A) + –ase.]

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Examples

  • To test this hypothesis, I added DNase to the crude extract in which we monitored ATP - and ubiquitin-dependent degradation of BSA, that was used as one of our model substrates.

    Aaron Ciechanover - Autobiography 2005

  • Manufactured in clean room conditions BRAND PCR products are DNase, DNA - and

    ThomasNet News - Today's New Product News 2010

  • CAD (or caspase-activated DNase in full) by slicing apart other proteins holding it at bay.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • DNA was removed in two steps, on-column using Qiagen RNase-free DNase and after elution using RNase-free DNase (New England Biolabs).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jean-Baptiste Rioux et al. 2010

  • CAD (or caspase-activated DNase in full) by slicing apart other proteins holding it at bay.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Upon completion, the reaction mixtures were treated with DNase RQ1 (Promega) at

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michel V. L�vesque et al. 2010

  • The contiguous primers annealing to the common exon of the B19 genome were used for both DNA and RNA detection, the latter after DNase treatment.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Claudia Filippone et al. 2010

  • They have discovered that the novel effect of caspase 3 in stem cells is related to its ability to activate another protein that cuts up the cell's DNA (called caspase-activated DNase) and has also traditionally been associated with programmed cell death.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • They have discovered that the novel effect of caspase 3 in stem cells is related to its ability to activate another protein that cuts up the cell's DNA (called caspase-activated DNase) and has also traditionally been associated with programmed cell death.

    innovations-report 2010

  • On-column DNase I digestion was performed. 100 ng of each RNA sample was retrotranscribed with QuantiTect Whole Transcriptome Kit (Qiagen) and a 50-fold dilution of cDNAs was analyzed by quantitative Real Time PCR (qRT-PCR) using an iCycler-iQ5

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Simone Pacini et al. 2010

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