schizomer

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Etymology

From schizo- +‎ -mer.

Noun

schizomer (plural schizomers)

  1. Synonym of restriction enzyme
    • 1990, Molecular Biology - Volume 24, Issues 1-2, page 213:
      Bsil and BpulOI belong to the class II restrictases, but have unusual recognition sites, related to the palindromic sequence CTCGAG (Xhol and its schizomers) and respectively, CCTNAGC (Saul and its schizomers).
    • 2012, H. Fraenkel-Conrat, Regulation and Genetics: Genetics of Animal Viruses, →ISBN, page 181:
      For cleavage of picornavirus polyproteins, such initial nucleation raises no problem for the first schizomer in the sequence (structural protein).
    • 2012, Yuguang Song, Dandan Ji, Shuo Li, Peng Wang, Qiang Li, Fengning Xiang, “The dynamic changes of DNA methylation and histone modifications of salt responsive transcription factor genes in soybean”, in PLoS ONE, volume 7, number 7:
      The digested DNA was extracted by phenol/chloroform and divided into two equal aliquots, one of which was treated with HpaII and the other with its schizomer MspI .

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