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CATH Superfamily 1.10.1520.10

Ribonuclease III domain

The name of this superfamily has been modified since the most recent official CATH+ release (v4_4_0). At the point of the last release, this superfamily was named:

"
Ribonuclease III domain
".

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FunFam 61: Ribonuclease 3

There are 1 EC terms in this cluster

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EC Term Annotations Evidence
Ribonuclease III. [EC: 3.1.26.3]
Endonucleolytic cleavage to 5'-phosphomonoester.
  • An endoribonuclease that cleaves double-stranded RNA molecules.
  • The cleavage can be either a single-stranded nick or double-stranded break in the RNA, depending in part upon the degree of base-pairing in the region of the cleavage site.
  • Specificity is conferred by negative determinants, i.e., the presence of certain Watson-Crick base-pairs at specific positions that strongly inhibit cleavage.
  • RNase III is involved in both rRNA processing and mRNA processing and decay.
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