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Aliases | DNASE1, DNL1, DRNI, deoxyribonuclease I | ||||||||||||||||
External IDs | OMIM: 125505 MGI: 103157 HomoloGene: 3826 GeneCards: DNASE1 | ||||||||||||||||
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Species | Human | Mouse | |||||||||||||||
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Location (UCSC) | Chr 16: 3.61 – 3.68 Mb | Chr 16: 4.04 – 4.04 Mb | |||||||||||||||
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Deoxyribonuclease I (usually called DNase I), is an endonuclease coded by the human gene DNASE1. DNase I is a nuclease that cleaves DNA preferentially at phosphodiester linkages adjacent to a pyrimidine nucleotide, yielding 5'-phosphate-terminated polynucleotides with a free hydroxyl group on position 3', on average producing tetranucleotides. It acts on single-stranded DNA, double-stranded DNA, and chromatin. In addition to its role as a waste-management endonuclease, it has been suggested to be one of the deoxyribonucleases responsible for DNA fragmentation during apoptosis.