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- A hypothetical enzyme that leads to the catenation of separated DNA strands.
I will digress briefly to tell you about a remarkably active catenase activity (unpublished observation by R. Low and A. Kornberg) .
1983, Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, Mechanisms of DNA Replication and Recombination, page 102 more examples
Nevertheless there remains the possibility that the action of the catenase when the chromosomes are pulled apart during cell division could unlink the daughter molecules.
1978, Journal of Mathematical Biology - Volume 6, page 388It is also interesting to note that two years before the discovery of the catenation-decatenation activity of DNA gyrase, Pohl and Roberts examined the possible existence of a new enzyme, the "catenase" which would make the alignment problem insignificant.
2012, A. De Recondo, New Approaches in Eukaryotic DNA Replication, page 132
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