adenylicadj.

1894 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 66 i. 156 The nuclëic acid prepared from the thyroid gland of calves yields adenine on boiling with water, and is therefore termed adenylic acid.

1930 Proc. Sect. Sci. Koninkl. Nederlandse Akad. van Wetenschappen 33 897 Von Euler suggests this last mentioned inactivation to be due to a desamination of the adenylic group in the nucleotide.

1967 A. Rich in G. C. Quarton et al. Neurosciences 109/1 The amino acid or growing polypeptide chain is attached to the terminal adenylic molecule.

1986 M. Kogut tr. H. G. Schlegel Gen. Microbiol. (2003) xvi. 557 Glutamine synthetase is reactivated by a de-adenylylating system that removes the adenylic group (AMP).

2003 C. Lévêque Ecosyst. to Biosphere xi. 250 This phase leads to the synthesis of energy molecules present in all organisms, the adenylic nucleotides (ATP, ADP, AMP).

1936 Ann. Reg. 1935 54 Muscle study showed that the chemical changes accompanying contraction are a complicated chain of linked reactions involving creatine, adenylic and phosphoric acid, and carbohydrates and the complexity grows.

1983 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell viii. 412 A separate poly-A polymerase enzyme adds 100 to 200 residues of adenylic acid (as poly A) to the 3′ end of the RNA chain to complete the primary RNA transcript.

2002 E. B. Hook Prematurity Sci. Discov. ii. 25 DNA was generally thought to be merely a tetranucleotide composed of one residue each of adenylic, guanylic, thymidylic, and cytidylic acid.