Preferred Label : dna cleavage;
MeSH definition : 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.;
Origin ID : D053837;
UMLS CUI : C1721094;
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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.
