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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
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Pyrimidinesnucleobaseoxypyrimidine

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1997
1997
Macrocyclic metal complexes for selective recognition of nucleic acid bases and manipulation of gene expression
Abstract 
1987
1987
Imbalance in the nucleotide pools of myeloid leukemia cells and HL-60 cells: correlation with cell-cycle phase, proliferation, differentiation, and transformation.
Myeloblasts from the blood of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in a blastoid crisis were shown to have an imbalance… 
1983
1983
Carbocyclic analogues of 5-substituted uracil nucleosides: synthesis and antiviral activity.
Carbocyclic analogues of 3'-deoxyuridines, 3'-deoxyuridines, and uridines with substituents at position 5 of the uracil moiety… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Induction of the DNA repair enzymes uracil DNA glycosylase and 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase in regenerating rat liver.
The capacity of eukaryotic cells to modulate the activities of DNA repair enzymes during cell proliferation was examined. Using… 
1977
1977
Sequence specificity of mutagen-nucleic acid complexes in solution: intercalation and mutagen-base pair overlap geometries for proflavine binding to dC-dC-dG-dG and dG-dG-dC-dC self-complementary…
The complex formed between the mutagen proflavine and the dC-dC-dG-dG and dG-dG-dC-dC self-complementary tetranucleotide duplexes… 
1973
1973
The effects of thioketo substitution upon uracil-adenine interactions in polyribonucleotides. Synthesis and properties of poly (2-thiouridylic acid) and poly(2,4-dithiouridylic acid).
The physical and biological properties of two new poly(U) analogs, poly(2-thiouridylic acid) or poly(s2U) and poly(2,4… 
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
FREE-RADICAL FORMATION IN IRRADIATED DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID.
SummaryElectron-spin-resonance spectroscopy has been used to study free radical formation in irradiated DNA, DNA containing bromo… 
1965
1965
THE SYNTHESIS OF EXTRACELLULAR RIBONUCLEOSIDES BY ASCITES TUMOR CELLS IN VITRO.
Ehrlich ascites carcinoma cells in vitro converted extracellular hypoxanthine to extracellular inosine if uridine or guanosine… 
Highly Cited
1957
Highly Cited
1957
Effect of Benzimidazole on Detached Wheat Leaves
DETACHED wheat leaves when floated on water retain their green colour for a few days only and are usually chlorotic within a week… 
1953
1953
Non-utilization of radioactive iodinated uracil, uridine, and orotic acid by animal tissues in vivo.
Iodouridine, iodoorotic acid, and iodouracil, labeled with I131, were synthesized. The syntheses of iodouridine and iodoorotic…