Surveyor nuclease assay (original) (raw)

Surveyor nuclease assay is an enzyme mismatch cleavage assay used to detect single base mismatches or small insertions or deletions (indels). Surveyor nuclease is part of a family of mismatch-specific endonucleases that were discovered in celery (CEL nucleases). The enzyme recognizes all base substitutions and insertions/deletions, and cleaves the 3′ side of mismatched sites in both DNA strands with high specificity