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Keywords: Rnase, Hydrolysis, Catalyzes, Nuclease, Phosphodiester

Related Terms: Base Pair, Cytosine, Deoxyribonucleotide, Dna, Nucleic Acid, Nucleoside, Nucleotide, Ribonucleic Acid, Guanine, Guanosine, Ribosome, Rna, Messenger Rna, Bases, Double Helix, Rrna, Nuclease, Nucleoprotein, Mrna, Transfer Rna, Adenine, Anticodon, Translation, Nucleotides, Polyadenylation, Rna Polymerase, Thymidine, Gtp, Ribosomal Rna, Nucleic Acids, Purine, Nitrogen Base, Oligonucleotide, Nitrogenous Base, Ribozyme, Aptamer, Base, Polynucleotide, Pyrimidine, Polyribosome, Renaturation, Ribose, Thymine, Uracil, Exonuclease, Purines, Base Pairs, Polysome, Base Pairing, Biomolecules

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Enzyme that cuts an RNA molecule by hydrolyzing one or more of its phosphodiester bonds.

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Any nuclease that cleaves phosphodiester bonds in RNA. All ribonucleases are proteins, with the exception of Ribonuclease P, which is a ribonucleoprotein with ribozyme activity.

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(Abbreviation: RNAse) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of RNA.

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a transferase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid

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