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Pyrimidines

Known as: PYRIMIDINE, Pyrimidines [Chemical/Ingredient] 
One of two chemical compounds that cells use to make the building blocks of DNA and RNA. Examples of pyrimidines are cytosine, thymine, and uracil… Expand
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1,4-dihydropyrimidine2-methyl-5,6-cyclopentapyrimidine4-(pyridin-2-yl)pyrimidine4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine
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diazine

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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer
All cancers are caused by somatic mutations; however, understanding of the biological processes generating these mutations is… Expand
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions
At some stage in the origin of life, an informational polymer must have arisen by purely chemical means. According to one version… Expand
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Review
2007
Review
2007
Purine and pyrimidine receptors
  • G. Burnstock
  • Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
  • 2007
    • Corpus ID: 52800799
Abstract.Adenosine 5′-triphosphate (ATP), in addition to its intracellular roles, acts as an extracellular signalling molecule… Expand
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Review
2004
Review
2004
Physiological concentrations of purines and pyrimidines
  • T. Traut
  • Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
  • 2004
    • Corpus ID: 25417169
The concentrations of bases, nucleosides, and nucleosides mono-, di- and tri-phosphate are compared for about 600 published… Expand
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Specificity and Stability in Topology of Protein Networks
Molecular networks guide the biochemistry of a living cell on multiple levels: Its metabolic and signaling pathways are shaped by… Expand
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
CpG motifs in bacterial DNA trigger direct B-cell activation
UNMETHYLATED CpG dinucleotides are more frequent in the gen-omes of bacteria and viruses than of vertebrates. We report here that… Expand
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
The kinetics of repair of oxidative DNA damage (strand breaks and oxidised pyrimidines) in human cells.
Single cell gel electrophoresis is a sensitive method for detecting DNA strand breaks. Cells embedded in agarose are converted to… Expand
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Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Methods for assessing the statistical significance of molecular sequence features by using general scoring schemes.
An unusual pattern in a nucleic acid or protein sequence or a region of strong similarity shared by two or more sequences may… Expand
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Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences
  • M. Kimura
  • Journal of Molecular Evolution
  • 1980
    • Corpus ID: 19528200
SummarySome simple formulae were obtained which enable us to estimate evolutionary distances in terms of the number of nucleotide… Expand
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Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
A new method for sequencing DNA.
DNA can be sequenced by a chemical procedure that breaks a terminally labeled DNA molecule partially at each repetition of a base… Expand
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