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What is a ribonuclease?

What is a ribonuclease? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes which catalyzes the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid.
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These enzymes, which include amylase, esterase, phosphatase, protease, and ribonuclease break down the digestible components of the insect body.
Barnase is an extracellular ribonuclease produced by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens.
A common RNASEL variant involves a mutation that results in decreased activity of the encoded ribonuclease L protein, thereby reducing immune defense against viruses.
The unfolding pathway was compared with that of the parent enzyme ribonuclease A, and a model was devised to assess the importance of the dissociation in the unfolding.
The same year they were awarded the Nobel Prize, Stein and Moore worked out the complete sequence of deoxyribonuclease, a molecule twice as complex as ribonuclease.
Enzyme-catalyzed breakdown of iodinated ribonuclease is used to identify the peptides in which the iodinated tyrosines are present.

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