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Purine vs Depurinization - What's the difference?

purine | depurinization |

As nouns the difference between purine and depurinization

is that purine is (organic compound) any of a class of organic heterocyclic compounds composed of fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings that comprise one of the two groups of organic nitrogenous bases (the other being the pyrimidines) and are components of nucleic acids while depurinization is (biochemistry) the mutation of nucleic acid by removal of purine bases (an ageing process in cells).

purine

English

(wikipedia purine)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (organic compound) Any of a class of organic heterocyclic compounds composed of fused pyrimidine and imidazole rings that comprise one of the two groups of organic nitrogenous bases (the other being the pyrimidines) and are components of nucleic acids.
  • * 1982 , Ray A. Field, Mechanically Deboned Red Meat'', C. O. Chichester, George Franklin Stewart, ''Advances in Food Research , Volume 27, page 67,
  • Clifford et al.'' (1976) investigated the metabolism of individual purines''' and found that adenine, and to a lesser extent hypoxanthine, had pronounced effects on blood uric acid levels. The ' purine content of foods, in particular adenine, would therefore be of immense nutritional significance.
  • * 1993 , Andrew Travers, DNA-Protein Interactions , page 6,
  • For example, for purine'-pyrimidine and for pyrimidine-'''purine''' base steps the presence of ' purines on opposite strands in successive base pairs sterically restricts the conformations that these base pairs can adopt relative to each other.
  • * 2008 , Hemanta K. Majumder, Drug Targets in Kinetoplastid Parasites , page 142,
  • The discovery that certain pyrazolopyrimidine nucleobases and nucleosides, analogs of naturally occurring purines', are toxic to ''Leishmania'', coupled with the obligatory nature of the leishmanial '''purine''' salvage pathway, has spawned considerable interest in the ' purine salvage pathway as a drug target.

    See also

    * adenine * guanine * hypoxanthine * xanthine * uric acid

    Anagrams

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    depurinization

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biochemistry) The mutation of nucleic acid by removal of purine bases (an ageing process in cells)
  • Synonyms

    *depurination