Medical Definition of Deoxyribopyrimidine endonucleosidase
1.
Cleaves the 5' residue of a pyrimidine dimer, giving an apyrimidinic site and a mixed pyrimidine/pyrimidine nucleotide dimer; associated endonuclease cleaves 3' to the apyrimidinic site, giving a 3'-deoxyribose moiety and a 5'-phosphate
Registry number: EC 3.2.2.17
Synonym: 5' dimer DNA glycosylase-3'-apyrimidinic endonuclease, pyrimidine dimer-DNA glycosylase, pd-glycosylase
(26 Jun 1999)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deoxyribopyrimidine Endonucleosidase
Other Resources:
