minkathebest Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 I understand the definition of this phenomnen is that restriction enzyme eats up sequences which it is not designed to chew up. But, I am very curious to know why they coined it as "STAR" activity. anything on this would be appreciated. babA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharonY Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 The guys identifying the less specific restriction by EcoRI (the Boyer's lab, I think) termed the activity EcoRI* to distinguish it from normal enzyme activity. The asterisk was then later on translated to "star". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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