DNA Cleavage
"DNA Cleavage" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A reaction that severs one of the covalent sugar-phosphate linkages between NUCLEOTIDES that compose the sugar phosphate backbone of DNA. It is catalyzed enzymatically, chemically or by radiation. Cleavage may be exonucleolytic - removing the end nucleotide, or endonucleolytic - splitting the strand in two.
| Descriptor ID |
D053837
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G02.111.087.217 G02.149.115.217 G05.355.142
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