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What does endonuclease mean?

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Noun
  1. (biochemistry) Any enzyme which catalyzes the cleavage of nucleic acids so as to produce variously sized fragments.
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In most persons this inability is due to the deficiency of an endonuclease enzyme.
This study shows that in a competition between the two enzymes, DNA ligase trumps the flap endonuclease in capturing bubbles and creating expanded tracts.
These blocked forks could potentially be processed into DNA breaks by an endonuclease.
Early in meiotic recombination, Spo11, a meiosis-specific endonuclease, induces the DNA double-strand breaks that initiate exchange of genetic material between the homologous chromosomes.
The preferred approach is genotyping, which is commonly performed by macrorestriction digestion of genomic DNA with a rare-cutting restriction endonuclease.
Let us remember that they are concerned with a DNA endonuclease, so I had some experience dealing with an enzyme that cut nucleic acids.

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