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Scissile bond

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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[1] or the peptide bond of a substrate cleaved by a peptidase.[2]

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