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Uracil

Known as: 4-hydroxy-2-(1H)-pyrimidione, 2,4(1H,3H)-Pyrimidinedione, 2,4-Pyrimidinediol 
A chemical compound that is used to make one of the building blocks of RNA. It is a type of pyrimidine.
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1-hexylcarbamoyluracil3-methyluracil4-hydroxyborauracil5,6-diamino-2,4-dihydroxypyrimidine
In BloodUracil/Creatinine:SRto:Pt:Urine:Qnagonistsanalogs & derivatives

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Pyrimidinesnucleobaseoxypyrimidine

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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Damage to model DNA fragments from very low-energy (<1 eV) electrons.
Although electrons having enough energy to ionize or electronically excite DNA have long been known to cause strand breaks (i.e… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Superproduction and rapid purification of Escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamylase and its catalytic subunit under extreme derepression of the pyrimidine pathway.
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Visualization of drug-nucleic acid interactions at atomic resolution. I. Structure of an ethidium/dinucleoside monophosphate crystalline complex, ethidium:5-iodouridylyl (3'-5') adenosine.
Review
1976
Review
1976
Bisulfite modification of nucleic acids and their constituents.
Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
Association by hydrogen bonding of free nucleosides in non-aqueous solution.
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
MACROMOLECULE SYNTHESIS AND THE INFLUENCE OF ACTINOMYCIN ON EARLY DEVELOPMENT.
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
DEOXYTHYMIDINE KINASE OF ESCHERICHIA COLI. II. KINETICS AND FEEDBACK CONTROL.
Highly Cited
1964
Highly Cited
1964
THE SYNTHESIS OF MESSENGER RNA WITHOUT PROTEIN SYNTHESIS. II. SYNTHESIS OF PHAGE-INDUCED RNA AND SEQUENTIAL ENZYME PRODUCTION.
Highly Cited
1962
Highly Cited
1962
The role of deoxyribonucleic acid in ribonucleic acid synthesis. III. The inhibition of the enzymatic synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid by actinomycin D and proflavin.
The synthesis of ribonucleic acid from ribonucleoside triphosphates by an enzyme system dependent on deoxyribonucleic acid has… 
Highly Cited
1961
Highly Cited
1961
Hydroxylamine as a mutagenic and inactivating agent.
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