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What are the Naming of Restriction enzymes?

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  • The first letter of the name comes from the genes and the second two letters come from the species of the prokaryotic cell from which they were isolated. 
  • Like EcoRI comes from Escherichia coli RY 13. In EcoRI, the letter 'R‘ is derived from the name of strain. 
  • Roman numbers following the names indicate the order in which the enzymes were isolated from that strain of bacteria.
  • Restriction enzymes belong to a larger class of enzymes called nucleases.  


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