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These include oxidoreductases, transferases, hydrolases, lyases, isomerases and ligases, a categorization Farina says is foundational to understanding enzyme functionality.
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Daryl Austin, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Alternatively, a special kind of viral ligase protein — which glues nucleic acids together — may have joined the dissimilar DNA and RNA strands, with the resultant hybrid code then replicated into DNA.
—Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2012
Gottesman worked with Martin Gellert, who had at that point just discovered the enzyme DNA ligase, the central enzyme for DNA replication and repair.
—Viviane Callier, Wired, 6 Sep. 2021
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Daryl Austin, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Alternatively, a special kind of viral ligase protein — which glues nucleic acids together — may have joined the dissimilar DNA and RNA strands, with the resultant hybrid code then replicated into DNA.
—Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2012
Gottesman worked with Martin Gellert, who had at that point just discovered the enzyme DNA ligase, the central enzyme for DNA replication and repair.
—Viviane Callier, Wired, 6 Sep. 2021
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“Ligase.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ligase. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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ligase
noun
li·gase
ˈlī-ˌgās, -ˌgāz 
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