Reaction: Endonucleolytic cleavage to nucleoside 3'-phosphates and 3'-phosphooligonucleotide end-products
Other name(s): spleen endonuclease; thermonuclease; nuclease T; micrococcal endonuclease; nuclease T'; staphylococcal nuclease; spleen phosphodiesterase; Staphylococcus aureus nuclease; Staphylococcus aureus nuclease B; ribonucleate (deoxynucleate) 3'-nucleotidohydrolase
Comments: Hydrolyses double- or single-stranded substrate. Formerly EC 3.1.4.7. cf. EC 3.1.16.1 spleen exonuclease.
Links to other databases: BRENDA, EXPASY, KEGG, Metacyc, PDB, CAS registry number: 9013-53-0
References:
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