Mung Bean Nuclease catalyzes the specific degradation of single-stranded DNA or RNA, and produces mono and oligonucleotides carrying a 5′-P terminus.
[2] As of April 2019[update], the specific gene encoding for this protein is unknown, and all production relies on a purification process on bean sprouts from 1980.
Its higher single-strand specificity makes it the enzyme of choice for most applications requiring a single-strand-specific nuclease.
Mung Bean Nuclease catalyzes the specific degradation of single-stranded DNA or RNA, and produces mono- and oligonucleotides carrying a 5′-P terminus.
Mung bean exonuclease is a nuclease derived from mung beans that removes nucleotides in a step-wise manner from single stranded DNA molecules and is used to remove such ssDNA from a mixture also containing double stranded DNA (dsDNA).