HsaI: a restriction enzyme from human being.
The HsaI restriction enzyme from the embryos of human, Homo sapiens, has been isolated with both the tissue extract and nuclear extract. It proves to be an unusual enzyme, clearly related functionally to Type II endonuclease. HsaI seems to be an isoschizomer of EcoRI, but it has a distinctive property of elution, differing from EcoRI. Upon SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the enzyme preparation showed Coomassie blue staining bands, having the molecular weight of 65,000 and 22,000 daltons in size, respectively.