Enzyme
ribonuclease iii
Definitions related to ribonuclease iii:
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An endoribonuclease that is specific for double-stranded RNA. It plays a role in POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL RNA PROCESSING of pre-RIBOSOMAL RNA and a variety of other RNA structures that contain double-stranded regions.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Cleaves multimeric tRNA at the spacer region involved in processing precursor rRNA, LnRNA, and early T7 mRNA also cleaves dsDNA.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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