Bovine pancreatic deoxyribonuclease is an endonuclease which splits phosphodiester linkages, preferentially adjacent to a pyrimidine nucleotide yielding polynucleotides with free hydroxyl group at the 3' position and phosphate group at the 5' position. The average chain length of a limit digest is a tetranucleotide.

Uses: Worthington offers DNase at different levels of purity for different applications.
Worthington Codes: DP and DCLS are suitable for these applications: (1) used in tissue culture work to digest DNA from damaged cells thereby reducing viscosity, and (2) removing membrane bound DNA fragments.