"2009-03-09T04:41:34Z"^^ . "2009-03-09T04:41:43Z"^^ . "A reaction that severs one of the covalent sugar-phosphate linkages between nucleotides that compose the sugar phosphate backbone of DNA. It is catalyzed enzymatically, chemically or by radiation. Cleavage may be exonucleolytic - removing the end nucleotide, or endonucleolytic - splitting the strand in two.\nSource:MeSH,2009."@en .