Descriptor English: | DNA Cleavage | ||||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
División del ADN
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Clivagem do DNA | ||||||
Descriptor French: | Clivage de l'ADN | ||||||
Tree number(s): |
G02.111.210 G05.193 |
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RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D053837 | ||||||
Scope note: | A reaction that severs one of the covalent sugar-phosphate linkages between NUCLEOTIDES that compose the sugar phosphate backbone of DNA. It is catalyzed enzymatically, chemically or by radiation. Cleavage may be exonucleolytic - removing the end nucleotide, or endonucleolytic - splitting the strand in two. |
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Allowable Qualifiers: |
DE drug effects RE radiation effects |
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Public MeSH Note: | 2007 |
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History Note: | 2007 |
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DeCS ID: | 52473 | ||||||
Unique ID: | D053837 | ||||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||||
Date Established: | 2007/01/01 | ||||||
Date of Entry: | 2006/07/05 | ||||||
Revision Date: | 2016/06/17 |
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DNA Cleavage
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Concept UI |
M0496791 |
Scope note | A reaction that severs one of the covalent sugar-phosphate linkages between NUCLEOTIDES that compose the sugar phosphate backbone of DNA. It is catalyzed enzymatically, chemically or by radiation. Cleavage may be exonucleolytic - removing the end nucleotide, or endonucleolytic - splitting the strand in two. |
Preferred term | DNA Cleavage |
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