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Scissile bond

In molecular biology, a scissile bond is a covalent chemical bond that can be broken by an enzyme. Examples would be the cleaved bond in the self-cleaving hammerhead ribozyme or the peptide bond of a substrate cleaved by a peptidase.

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  • Chemical bonding
  • Enzymes
  • Molecular biology