pentapyrimidine

English

Etymology

penta- +‎ pyrimidine

Noun

pentapyrimidine (plural pentapyrimidines)

1. A sequence of five pyrimidines in a nucleic acid
   • 2015 October 1, “An Alternative Method to Facilitate cDNA Cloning for Expression Studies in Mammalian Cells by Introducing Positive Blue White Selection in Vaccinia Topoisomerase I-Mediated Recombination”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     The enzyme recognizes a specific pentapyrimidine sequence of 5’-(C/T)CCTT↓-3’ and hydrolyzes the phosphodiester bond at the 3’-end of its recognition site [4 ].