IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature

EC 3.1.21.7

Accepted name: deoxyribonuclease V

Reaction: Endonucleolytic cleavage at apurinic or apyrimidinic sites to products with a 5'-phosphate

Other name(s): endodeoxyribonuclease V; DNase V; Escherichia coli endodeoxyribonuclease V

Comments: Previously classified erroneously as EC 3.1.22.3.

Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, Metacyc, PDB, CAS registry number: 61970-03-4

References:

1. Gates, F.T. and Linn, S. Endonuclease V of Escherichia coli. J. Biol. Chem. 252 (1977) 1647-1653. [PMID: 14159]

[EC 3.1.21.7 created 1978 as EC 3.1.22.3, transferred 2001 to EC 3.1.21.7]

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