In molecular biology, the DpnII restriction endonuclease family is a family of
restriction endonucleases
A restriction enzyme, restriction endonuclease, REase, ENase or'' restrictase '' is an enzyme that cleaves DNA into fragments at or near specific recognition sites within molecules known as restriction sites. Restriction enzymes are one class o ...
which includes DpnII from ''
Diplococcus pneumoniae''. These
enzymes recognise the double-stranded
DNA unmethylated
sequence
In mathematics, a sequence is an enumerated collection of objects in which repetitions are allowed and order matters. Like a set, it contains members (also called ''elements'', or ''terms''). The number of elements (possibly infinite) is calle ...
GATC and cleave before G-1, where it encompasses the full length of the protein.
References
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Protein families