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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… 
National Institutes of Health

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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… 
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… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences
  • M. Kimura
  • Journal of Molecular Evolution
  • 2005
  • Corpus ID: 19528200
SummarySome simple formulae were obtained which enable us to estimate evolutionary distances in terms of the number of nucleotide… 
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… 
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… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Receptors for purines and pyrimidines.
### A. Overview Extracellular purines (adenosine, ADP, and ATP) and pyrimidines (UDP and UTP) are important signaling molecules… 
Review
1986
Review
1986
Point mutations define a sequence flanking the AUG initiator codon that modulates translation by eukaryotic ribosomes
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
A new method for sequencing DNA.
  • A. MaxamW. Gilbert
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
  • 1977
  • Corpus ID: 41429409
DNA can be sequenced by a chemical procedure that breaks a terminally labeled DNA molecule partially at each repetition of a base… 
Highly Cited
1957
Highly Cited
1957
Fluorinated Pyrimidines, A New Class of Tumour-Inhibitory Compounds
Highly Cited
1945
Highly Cited
1945
A method for the determination of desoxyribonucleic acid, ribonucleic acid, and phosphoproteins in animal tissues.
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