Organic Chemical
purine nucleotides
Subclass of:
Nucleotides; Purines
Definitions related to purine nucleotides:
  • Phosphate ester of a purine nucleoside, particularly the 5' phosphate of a purine in N-glycosidic linkage with ribose or deoxyribose as occurs in nucleic acid.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Purines attached to a RIBOSE and a phosphate that can polymerize to form DNA and RNA.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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