Organic Chemical
purine nucleotides
Subclass of:
Nucleotides;
Purines
Definitions related to purine nucleotides:
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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 ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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Purines attached to a RIBOSE and a phosphate that can polymerize to form DNA and RNA.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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