Ribonuclease
| Ribonuclease | |||||||||||
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| Ustilago sphaerogena Ribonuclease U2 with AMP PDB entry 3agn | |||||||||||
| Identifiers | |||||||||||
| Symbol | Ribonuclease | ||||||||||
| Pfam | PF00545 | ||||||||||
| InterPro | IPR000026 | ||||||||||
| SCOP2 | 1brn / SCOPe / SUPFAM | ||||||||||
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Ribonuclease (commonly abbreviated RNase) is a type of nuclease that catalyzes the degradation of RNA into smaller components. Ribonucleases can be divided into endoribonucleases and exoribonucleases, and comprise several sub-classes within the EC 2.7 (for the phosphorolytic enzymes) and 3.1 (for the hydrolytic enzymes) classes of enzymes.