Some ribonucleases cut internal phosphodiester bonds, whereas others remove nucleotides from an end. Selective RNA degradation contributes to processing and regulation, so cleavage can produce a functional mature RNA as well as destroy a transcript. [ref]
Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th edition by Bruce Alberts and others. Chapters 3, 6 and 15, protein function, translation and cell signalling
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