• In molecular biology, a polynucleotide (from Ancient Greek πολυς (polys) 'many') is a biopolymer composed of nucleotide monomers that are covalently bonded...
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    Polynucleotide Phosphorylase (PNPase) is a bifunctional enzyme with a phosphorolytic 3' to 5' exoribonuclease activity and a 3'-terminal oligonucleotide...
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  • degradosome, which contains two RNA-degrading enzymes: polynucleotide phosphorylase and RNase E. Polynucleotide phosphorylase binds to the 3′ end of RNAs and the...
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    In enzymology, a polynucleotide adenylyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.19) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ATP + RNA-3'OH ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons...
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  • The enzyme polynucleotide 5′-phosphatase (RNA 5′-triphosphatase, RTPase, EC 3.1.3.33) is an enzyme that catalyzes the reaction a 5′-phosphopolynucleotide...
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    (/diːˈɒksɪˌraɪboʊnjuːˌkliːɪk, -ˌkleɪ-/ ; DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix. The polymer...
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  • In enzymology, a polynucleotide 5'-hydroxyl-kinase (EC 2.7.1.78) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ATP + 5'-dephospho-DNA ⇌ {\displaystyle...
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    the structure of the biopolymer formed: polynucleotides, polypeptides, and polysaccharides. The Polynucleotides, RNA and DNA, are long polymers of nucleotides...
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  • The enzyme polynucleotide 3′-phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.32) catalyzes the reaction a 3′-phosphopolynucleotide + H2O ⇌{\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } a polynucleotide...
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  • polydeoxyribonucleotide synthase (NAD+), polynucleotide ligase (NAD+), DNA repair enzyme, DNA joinase, polynucleotide synthetase (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide)...
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  • 7-methylguanosine 5'-triphospho-5'-polynucleotide + H2O ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } 7-methylguanosine 5'-phosphate + polynucleotide Thus, the two substrates...
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    number of regular hyperbolic paracompact tesselations. The number of polynucleotide strands in a DNA double helix. The first magic number. The atomic number...
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    and RNA, members of a family of biopolymers, and is synonymous with polynucleotide. Nucleic acids were named for their initial discovery within the nucleus...
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    Biochemical Nomenclature. "Abbreviations and Symbols for Nucleic Acids, Polynucleotides and Their Constituents" (PDF). International Union of Pure and Applied...
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  • contributor to the DNA model was Phoebus Levene, who proposed the "polynucleotide model" of DNA in 1919 as a result of his biochemical experiments on...
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    biological macromolecules—i.e., proteins (polyamides), nucleic acids (polynucleotides), and polysaccharides—are purely polymeric, or are composed in large...
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    that controls form or function of an organism. DNA is composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is found...
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    each other to form a double helix. The two DNA strands are known as polynucleotides since they are composed of simpler units called nucleotides. Each nucleotide...
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  • to as artificial biopolymers, e.g., artificial protein, artificial polynucleotide, etc. Polysiloxane Polyphosphazene Polyborazyline The eight most common...
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    biochemistry that leads, among other events, to the existence of enzymes and polynucleotides that interact maintaining the biological order and participating in...
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    synthesize RNA in the laboratory. However, the enzyme discovered by Ochoa (polynucleotide phosphorylase) was later shown to be responsible for RNA degradation...
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    in 1959 for developing a process for synthesizing RNA in vitro with polynucleotide phosphorylase, which was useful for cracking the genetic code. RNA synthesis...
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    Nomenclature (1970). "Abbreviations and symbols for nucleic acids, polynucleotides, and their constituents". Biochemistry. 9 (20): 4022–4027. doi:10.1021/bi00822a023...
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    discontinuous. The hypothesis was further supported by the discovery of polynucleotide ligase, an enzyme that links short DNA strands together. In 1968, Reiji...
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    Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation; Title: "Expression of Exogenous Polynucleotide Sequences in a Vertebrate Archived 9 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine";...
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    globular proteins Carbohydrates Monosaccharides Polysaccharides Starch, glycogen and cellulose Nucleic acids Nucleotides Polynucleotides DNA and RNA...
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    Basilio C, Miller RS, Lengyel P, Speyer JF (December 1962). "Synthetic polynucleotides and the amino acid code. VII". Proceedings of the National Academy...
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  • DNA. The original polynucleotide strand of DNA serves as a template to guide the synthesis of the new complementary polynucleotide of DNA. The DNA single-strand...
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    work by cleaving nucleotides one at a time from the end (exo) of a polynucleotide chain. A hydrolyzing reaction that breaks phosphodiester bonds at either...
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    Ohtsuka E, Kleppe R, Molineux I, Khorana HG (March 1971). "Studies on polynucleotides. XCVI. Repair replications of short synthetic DNA's as catalyzed by...
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