A nomenclature for restriction enzymes, DNA methyltransferases, homing endonucl...

• Author(s): Roberts, Richard J. ; Belfort, Marlene ; Bestor, Timothy ; Bhagwat, Ashok S. ; Bickle, Thomas A. ; Bitinaite, Jurate ; Vítor, Jorge M. B.
• Date: 2003
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/8612
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

A nomenclature is described for restriction endonucleases, DNA methyltransferases, homing endonucleases and related genes and gene products. It provides explicit categories for the many different Type II enzymes now identi®ed and provides a system for naming the putative genes found by sequence analysis of microbial genomes.