Meanings
plural schizomers
- Synonym of restriction enzyme.
For cleavage of picornavirus polyproteins, such initial nucleation raises no problem for the first schizomer in the sequence (structural protein).
2012, H. Fraenkel-Conrat, Regulation and Genetics: Genetics of Animal Viruses, →ISBN, page 1812 more examples
Bsil and BpulOI belong to the class II restrictases, but have unusual recognition sites, related to the palindromic sequence CTCGAG (Xhol and its schizomers) and respectively, CCTNAGC (Saul and its schizomers).
1990, Molecular Biology - Volume 24, Issues 1-2, page 213The digested DNA was extracted by phenol/chloroform and divided into two equal aliquots, one of which was treated with HpaII and the other with its schizomer MspI [39].
2012, Yuguang Song, Dandan Ji, Shuo Li, Peng Wang, Qiang Li, Fengning Xiang, “The dynamic changes of DNA methylation and histone modifications of salt responsive transcription factor genes in soybean”, in PLoS ONE, volume 7, number 7Synonyms: restriction enzyme
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of restriction enzyme.
Origin
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