uridinen.
/ˈjʊərɪdiːn/ Biochemistry.
A pyrimidine nucleoside, C5H9O4·C4H3N2O2, in which the base is uracil and the sugar ribose, and which is a constituent of RNA and various intermediates in cell matabolism.
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1911 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 100 i. 96 Nitrous acid effects the quantitative elimination of the amino-group from cytidine, and uridine is obtained.
1946 Nature 24 Aug. 275/2 Miss Mejbaum has found..that the pentose contained in pyrimidine nucleotides (uridylic acid and cydidylic [read cytidylic] acid) and nucleosides (uridine) are not determined by her method.
1970 R. W. McGilvery Biochemistry xx. 477 Uridine triphosphate can be used for nucleic acid synthesis or in the formation of metabolic intermediates such as uridine diphosphate glucose.
1976 Sci. Amer. Feb. 33/2 RNA..differs from DNA in that all the thymidine units are replaced by uridine.
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