“…Incubation of various concentrations of HP0268 nuclease, characterized to have nickase activity, with plamsids like pET15b(+), pET-21a(+) and pET28a(+) resulted in open circular (nicked) and linear forms of DNA (Lee et al, 2015). Similarly, incubation of DC13 nuclease or nickase, with plasmids pBluescript, pUC18, pET15b, pET26b resulted in accumulation of predominantly Open Circular form and low levels of linear form (Somyoonsap 2013). Another nicking endonuclease, N. BstBI was shown to produce major, open circular form and minor, linear form upon its activity on plasmid substrate (Higgins , 2001).…”