RESTRICTION ENZYME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does restriction enzyme mean? 

• RESTRICTION ENZYME (noun)
  The noun RESTRICTION ENZYME has 1 sense:

1. any of the enzymes that cut nucleic acid at specific restriction sites and produce restriction fragments; obtained from bacteria (where they cripple viral invaders); used in recombinant DNA technology

  Familiarity information: RESTRICTION ENZYME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESTRICTION ENZYME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the enzymes that cut nucleic acid at specific restriction sites and produce restriction fragments; obtained from bacteria (where they cripple viral invaders); used in recombinant DNA technology

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Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

restriction endonuclease; restriction enzyme; restriction nuclease

Hypernyms ("restriction enzyme" is a kind of...):

endonuclease (a nuclease that cleaves nucleic acids at interior bonds and so produces fragments of various sizes)

 Context examples 

Such a cloning vector will usually have convenient restriction enzyme sites to facilitate the introduction of foreign DNA by ligation.

(Plasmid Cloning Vector, NCI Thesaurus)

A map of the locations of identifiable landmarks on DNA (for example, restriction enzyme cutting site, genes), regardless of inheritance.

(Physical Map of the Human Genome, NCI Thesaurus)

Uses PCR and/or restriction enzymes to generate short dsDNA molecules spanning a sequence of interest.

(Conformation Dependent Mutation Detection, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)

The specific restriction enzyme site within a vector into which an insert was placed.

(Cloning Site, NCI Thesaurus)

The Cloning Laboratory Shared Resource provides restriction enzymes, DNA and RNA modification enzymes, host cell lines, kits, cloning and expression vectors, competent cells, molecular weight markers, and other chemicals and reagents for Cancer Center research projects in the fields of molecular biology and biochemistry.

(Cloning Laboratory Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

A procedure in which multilocus band patterns of a DNA sample are generated by digestion of the DNA with restriction enzymes followed by electrophoresis and visualization by hybridization with probes specific for repetitive sequences.

(DNA Fingerprinting, NCI Thesaurus)