protelomerase

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pro- +‎ telomer +‎ -ase

Noun[edit]

protelomerase (plural protelomerases)

  1. (biochemistry) Any enzyme that generates and protects "hairpin" telomeres
    • 2015 November 13, “Physical Characterization of Gemini Surfactant-Based Synthetic Vectors for the Delivery of Linear Covalently Closed (LCC) DNA Ministrings”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      The parental pDNA (Fig 3) is composed of an[sic] eukaryotic expression cassette flanked by two multi-target sites, called "Super Sequence" (SS), acting as recognition sites for PY54 bacteriophage derived Tel protelomerase.