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What does exonuclease mean?

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  1. (biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes which cleave single nucleotides from the end of a polynucleotide (DNA or RNA) chain.
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No. 2 and having an exonuclease activity removed by replacing the aspartic acid residue at position 8 with an alanine residue.
Phage gene 46 encodes one subunit of a putative exonuclease that is thought to be directly involved in recombination and recombinational repair.
Orn was shown by in vitro analysis to be an exonuclease specific for RNA molecules shorter than five nucleotides in length.
So Oxford Nanopore has also been looking at an alternative approach, called exonuclease sequencing, in conjunction with Illumina, an American firm that is the market leader in rapid sequencing.
The presence of the mismatched nucleotide greatly inhibits the addition of the next nucleotide, and the pause in the polymerization process gives the exonuclease time to remove the noncomplementary nucleotide.
Data from 4 additional polymerases could not be analyzed because the template was degraded by 3' to 5' exonuclease activity before acquisition.

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