Members of this family of prokaryotic restriction endonucleases recognise the double-stranded sequence 5'-GATATC-3' and cleave after T-3. They catalyse the endonucleolytic cleavage of DNA to give specific double-stranded fragments with terminal 5'-phosphates [1].

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