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- guanine (G). In RNA, uracil binds to adenine via two hydrogen bonds. In DNA, the uracil nucleobase is replaced by thymine (T). Uracil is a demethylated form...
- nucleotide bases found in DNA and RNA, along with adenine, guanine, and thymine (uracil in RNA). It is a pyrimidine derivative, with a heterocyclic aromatic ring...
- Uridine diphosphate glucose (uracil-diphosphate glucose, UDP-glucose) is a nucleotide sugar. It is involved in glycosyltransferase reactions in metabolism...
- Uracil-DNA glycosylase (also known as UNG or UDG) is an enzyme. Its most important function is to prevent mutagenesis by eliminating uracil from DNA molecules...
- Abraham Cantarow and Karl Paschkis found liver tumors absorbed radioactive uracil more readily than did normal liver cells. Charles Heidelberger, who had...
- thymine may be derived by methylation of uracil at the 5th carbon. In RNA, thymine is replaced with uracil in most cases. In DNA, thymine (T) binds to...
- nucleobases are pyrimidine derivatives: cytosine (C), thymine (T), and uracil (U). The pyrimidine ring system has wide occurrence in nature as substituted...
- Five nucleobases—adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), thymine (T), and uracil (U)—are called primary or canonical. They function as the fundamental units...
- Tegafur/uracil (abbreviation: UFT) is a chemotherapy drug combination used in the treatment of cancer, primarily bowel cancer. UFT is an oral formulation...
- Uracil phosphoribosyltransferase is an enzyme which creates UMP from uracil and phosphoribosylpyrophosphate. This protein may use the morpheein model...