:Venom exonuclease

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| Name = Venom exonuclease

| EC_number = 3.1.15.1

| CAS_number = 9025-82-5

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Venom exonuclease ({{EC number|3.1.15.1}}, venom phosphodiesterase) is an enzyme.{{cite book | chapter = , Sr. Pancreatic deoxyribonuclease I | title = Procedures in Nucleic Acid Research | vauthors = Laskowski M |date = 1966 |volume = |pages = 85–101 | veditors = Cantoni GL, Davies DR |edition = |publisher = Procedures in Nucleic Acid Research |location = New York }} This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction

Exonucleolytic cleavage in the 3'- to 5'- direction to yield nucleoside 5'-phosphates (exonuclease type a)

File:Exonuclease type a.svg

This enzyme has preference for single-stranded substrate.

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