GO molecular function ontology term - GO:0017108 - 5'-flap endonuclease activity

Term summary

ID

GO:0017108

Name

5'-flap endonuclease activity

Ontology or CV name

GO molecular function

Definition

Catalysis of the cleavage of a 5' flap structure in DNA, but not other DNA structures; processes the 5' ends of Okazaki fragments in lagging strand DNA synthesis.

Parents

• is_a DNA endonuclease activity, producing 5'-phosphomonoesters
• is_a flap endonuclease activity

Annotation