pentapyrimidine
English
Etymology
penta- + pyrimidine
Noun
pentapyrimidine (plural pentapyrimidines)
- 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], :
- 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 ].