DNA Modification Enzymes

BioE 140L · UC Berkeley

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AI Prompt

Are you familiar with the content of the NEB catalog?

A chat assistant answering a question about the classes of polymerase described in the NEB catalog

Underneath all of them, three reactions

The enzyme classes

Grouped by the reaction they run, which is the order we will take them

Hydrolysis
water attacks; the bond is destroyed
Transphosphorylation
an alcohol attacks; the bond is moved
Methyl transfer
a base attacks a methyl group: carbon this time, not phosphorus