Nucleases are enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of phosphodiester bonds in DNA or RNA. They play fundamental roles in nucleic acid extraction, sample purification, contamination control, and molecular experiment quality control.
Micrococcal nuclease (MNase) is a classical endonuclease preparation for nucleic acids (a historical name). Common commercial preparations are derived from Staphylococcus-related strains and can act on single-stranded and double-stranded DNA as well as RNA.
Targets and Release Using Nuclease (CUT&RUN) experimental technology is an emerging chromatin analysis method for studying protein-DNA interactions. It uses antibodies to specifically label target proteins, and then uses nucleases bound to antibodies (such as pAG-MNase) to cut DNA fragments that ...