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pentapyrimidine en · NOUN

Etymology

From penta- + pyrimidine.

Meanings

1. A sequence of five pyrimidines in a nucleic acid
   • 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 ]. 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, →DOI:

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