Exonuclease
Exonucleases (ExN) cleave nucleotides at the end of a polynucleotide chain[1]. In E. coli there are ExN I to VIII. ExN were found in human and yeast as well.
in E. coli exonuclease I (PDB code 1fxx).[2] Water molecules shown as red spheres. |
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3D Structures of exonuclease3D Structures of exonuclease
Updated on 25-August-2017
ReferencesReferences
- ↑ Mukherjee D, Fritz DT, Kilpatrick WJ, Gao M, Wilusz J. Analysis of RNA exonucleolytic activities in cellular extracts. Methods Mol Biol. 2004;257:193-212. PMID:14770007 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-750-5:193
- ↑ Breyer WA, Matthews BW. Structure of Escherichia coli exonuclease I suggests how processivity is achieved. Nat Struct Biol. 2000 Dec;7(12):1125-8. PMID:11101894 doi:10.1038/81978