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Pyrimidine analogue — Pyrimidine analogues are antimetabolites which mimic the structure of metabolic pyrimidines.ExamplesExamples include:* 5 fluorouracil (5FU) which inhibits thymidylate synthase. * Floxuridine (FUDR) * Cytosine arabinoside (Cytarabine) … Wikipedia
Nucleoside analogue — Nucleoside analogues are a range of antiviral products used to prevent viral replication in infected cells. The most commonly used is Acyclovir, although its inclusion in this category is uncertain, as it contains only a partial nucleoside… … Wikipedia
nucleoside analogue — a structural analogue of a nucleoside, including both purine analogues and pyrimidine analogues … Medical dictionary
base analogue — A non natural purine or pyrimidine base that differs slightly in structure from the normal bases, but can be incorporated into nucleic acids. They are often mutagenic … Glossary of Biotechnology
Nucleotide — Nucleotides are molecules that, when joined together, make up the structural units of RNA and DNA. In addition, nucleotides participate in cellular signaling (cGMP and cAMP), and are incorporated into important cofactors of enzymatic reactions… … Wikipedia
Uracil — Uracil … Wikipedia
Nucleobase — Base pairing in RNA. Nucleobases in blue. Hydrogen bonds in red. Nucleobases are a group of nitrogen based molecules that are required to form nucleotides, the basic building blocks of DNA and RNA. Nucleobases provide the molecular structure… … Wikipedia
Cytosine — Cytosine … Wikipedia
Thymidine — Identifiers CAS number 50 89 5 … Wikipedia
Cytidine triphosphate — IUPAC name [(2R,3S,4R,5R) 5 (4 amino 2 oxopyrimidin 1 yl) 3,4 dihydroxyoxolan 2 yl]methyl(hydroxy phosphon … Wikipedia
