Another result of this research are zinc finger nucleases. These artificial enzymes consist of a sub-unit that recognizes the desired DNA sequence, and a DNA-cutting part of a restriction enzyme.

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The cutting and joining manipulations that underlies gene cloning are carried out by enzymes called restriction endonucleases (for cutting) and ligases (for joining). Nucleases degrade DNA molecules ...