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Ribonuclease H (RNase H) type II family (prokaryotic RNase HII and HIII, and eukaryotic RNase H2/HII). Ribonuclease H (RNase H) is classified into two families, type I (prokaryotic RNase HI, eukaryotic RNase H1 and viral RNase H) and type II (prokaryotic RNase HII and HIII, and eukaryotic RNase H2/HII). RNase H endonucleolytically hydrolyzes an RNA strand when it is annealed to a complementary DNA strand in the presence of divalent cations. The enzyme can be found in bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. Most prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes contain multiple RNase H genes, but no prokaryotic genome contains the combination of only RNase HI and HIII. Despite a lack of evidence for homology from sequence comparisons, type I and type II RNase H share a common fold and similar steric configurations of the four acidic active-site residues, suggesting identical or very similar catalytic mechanisms. It appears that type I and type II RNases H also have overlapping functions in cells, as over-expression of Escherichia coli RNase HII can complement an RNase HI deletion phenotype in E. coli.
No pairwise interactions are available for this conserved domain.
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