Restriction Enzyme

​Restriction Enzyme

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A restriction enzyme is a protein isolated from bacteria that cleaves DNA sequences at sequence-specific sites, producing DNA fragments with a known sequence at each end. The use of restriction enzymes is critical to certain laboratory methods, including recombinant DNA technology and genetic engineering.

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Restriction enzyme. Restriction enzymes are incredibly cool, and there are at least three thousand of them. Each one of these enzymes cuts a specific DNA sequence and doesn't discriminate as to where the DNA comes from — bacteria, fungi, mouse, or human, snip, snip, snip.

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Prabarna Ganguly, Ph.D.

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Vector Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Recombinant DNA Technology Genetic Engineering