DNA Cleavage

"DNA Cleavage" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A reaction that severs one of the covalent sugar-phosphate linkages between NUCLEOTIDES that compose the sugar phosphate backbone of DNA. It is catalyzed enzymatically, chemically or by radiation. Cleavage may be exonucleolytic - removing the end nucleotide, or endonucleolytic - splitting the strand in two.

Descriptor ID	D053837
MeSH Number(s)	G02.111.210 G05.193
Concept/Terms	DNA Cleavage DNA Cleavage

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Biological Sciences [G]
Chemical Phenomena [G02]
Biochemical Phenomena [G02.111]
DNA Cleavage [G02.111.210]
Genetic Phenomena [G05]
DNA Cleavage [G05.193]

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2020	0	1	1

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