exonucleolytic love

Definitions

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  • adjective That cleaves nucleic acid by the removal of single nucleotides from the end of the chain

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Examples

  • Effects on heteroallelic recombination have been suggested to be the result of crisis-associated exonucleolytic degradation from uncapped telomeres, which can confer a recombinagenic state on telomere proximal sequences

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2008

  • Figure 2) in a significant fraction of the recombinants suggests that crisis-associated translocations need not arise exclusively from exonucleolytic degradation from the telomere.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2008

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