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. 1998 Jul 15;26(14):3348–3349. doi: 10.1093/nar/26.14.3348

BfiI, a restriction endonuclease from Bacillus firmus S8120, which recognizes the novel non-palindromic sequence 5'-ACTGGG(N)5/4-3'.

J Vitkute 1, Z Maneliene 1, M Petrusyte 1, A Janulaitis 1
PMCID: PMC147700  PMID: 9649617

Abstract

A new type IIS restriction endonuclease Bfi I hasbeen partially purified from Bacillus firmus S8120. Bfi I recognizes the non-palindromic hexanucleotide sequence 5'-ACTGGG(N)5/4-3' and makes a staggered cut at the fifth base pair downstream of the recognition sequence on the upper strand, producing a single base 3' protruding end.

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