This subfamily includes Mycoplasma pulmonis MnuA, a membrane-associated nuclease related to Deoxyribonuclease 1 (DNase1 or DNase I, EC 3.1.21.1). The in vivo role of MnuA is as yet undetermined. This subfamily belongs to the large EEP (exonuclease/endonuclease/phosphatase) superfamily that contains functionally diverse enzymes that share a common catalytic mechanism of cleaving phosphodiester bonds.
Comment:based on other EEP superfamily members with structure, and on site-directed mutagenesis of bovine pancreatic deoxyribonuclease I (DNase I); highly conserved in the EEP superfamily