Today, researchers rely on restriction enzymes to perform virtually any process that involves manipulating, analyzing, and creating new combinations of DNA sequences.

These enzymes recognize characteristic DNA sequences and cut them. Bacteria and Archaea can also use these enzymes to locate foreign DNA and render it harmless. Scientists used the restriction enzymes ...

While Roberts pursued new restriction enzymes, others used them to sequence, map, clone, and manipulate genes. At the start of his tenure with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Roberts originally ...

Methyltransferase enzymes provide these sections with chemical labels, causing them to be ignored by the cell. Like the librarian putting warning labels on certain books, these enzymes leave the ...

Restriction enzyme sequences can be added onto the ends of a genetic sequence through PCR, and they have been conveniently packed into vectors so genes can be easily inserted by using them. When using ...

Restriction enzymes are essential tools for recombinant DNA technology that have revolutionized modern biological research; however, they have limited sequence specificity and availability. The ...

Among them, type IIS restriction enzymes can cleave DNA duplexes at a specific distance downstream from one side of its asymmetric recognition site, since the recognition sequence and catalytic region ...

The bases combine in numerous sequences, and various restriction enzymes attach to and cut specific sequences, enabling scientists to isolate and snip DNA segments of differing lengths. The enzyme ...

Briefly, the type IIS restriction enzymes, a subset of type II restriction endonucleases, have the particularity of cleaving the DNA a few base pairs away from the recognition site.