ADENINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adenine mean? 

• ADENINE (noun)
  The noun ADENINE has 1 sense:

1. (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA

  Familiarity information: ADENINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADENINE (noun)

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Meaning:

(biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

A; adenine

Hypernyms ("adenine" is a kind of...):

purine (any of several bases that are derivatives of purine)

Domain category:

biochemistry (the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry)

Holonyms ("adenine" is a substance of...):

deoxyribonucleic acid; desoxyribonucleic acid; DNA ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information)

ribonucleic acid; RNA ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell)

 Context examples 

This gene is involved in both apolipoprotein A-I binding and nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide metabolism.

(APOA1BP Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes adenine phosphoribosyltransferase protein, is involved in an AMP purine salvage reaction that recycles adenine into nucleic acids by formation of AMP from adenine and 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate.

(APRT wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

There are four nucleotides, or bases, in DNA: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T).

(Base pair, NCI Dictionary)

They focused on the commonly oxidized 8-oxo-dGTP which may pair with either cytosine or adenine.

(Structural Snapshots of Damaged DNA, NIH)

A molecule consisting of a nitrogen-containing base (adenine, guanine, thymine, or cytosine in DNA; adenine, guanine, uracil, or cytosine in RNA), a phosphate group, and a sugar (deoxyribose in DNA; ribose in RNA).

(Nucleotide, NCI Dictionary)

MTAP is a key enzyme in the adenine and methionine salvage pathways.

(Alanosine, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic derivative of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD).

(Aminothiadiazole, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in the synthesis of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide.

(Nicotinate-Nucleotide Pyrophosphorylase [Carboxylating], NCI Thesaurus)

After hydrolysis, the cyclopropyl group of carzelesin alkylates N3-adenine in a sequence-selective fashion.

(Carzelesin, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes A/G-specific adenine DNA glycosylase protein, is involved in repair of the mutagenic adenosine/8-oxo-guanine mismatched base pair in DNA.

(MUTYH wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)