Vik, Alseth and coworkers publish a novel enzymatic activity in Nature Communication
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Erik S. Vik and Ingrun Alseth from Department of Microbiology are first and last authors of an article published in Nature Communications 05.08.2013 entitled "Endonuclease V cleaves at inosines in RNA".
In this paper novel enzymatic properties for humane Endonuclease V have been revealed. Whereas bacterial homologs of Endonuclease V are DNA repair proteins, the authors find that the humane enzyme rather is active on modified RNA.
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Endonuclease V cleaves at inosines in RNA.
Sebastian Vik E, Sameen Nawaz M, Strøm Andersen P, Fladeby C, Bjørås M, Dalhus B, and Alseth I.
Nat Commun. 2013 Aug 5;4:2271. doi: 10.1038/ncomms3271.