PURINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purine mean? 

• PURINE (noun)
  The noun PURINE has 2 senses:

1. any of several bases that are derivatives of purine

2. a colorless crystalline organic base containing nitrogen; the parent compound of various biologically important substances

  Familiarity information: PURINE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several bases that are derivatives of purine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

alkali; base (any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "purine"):

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

G; guanine (a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A colorless crystalline organic base containing nitrogen; the parent compound of various biologically important substances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

alkali; base (any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water)

 Context examples 

This gene plays a role in purine biosynthesis.

(ATIC Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes bifunctional purine biosynthesis protein PURH, is involved in the synthesis of purines.

(ATIC wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in the purine salvage pathway.

(APRT Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Any substance that inhibits amidophosphoribosyltransferase, an enzyme that catalyzes the commiting step on de novo purine synthesis.

(Amidophosphoribosyltransferase Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in purine biosynthesis.

(Amidophosphoribosyltransferase, NCI Thesaurus)

A purine nucleotide analogue antibiotic isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces antibioticus.

(Pentostatin, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in purine salvage.

(MTAP Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes cytosolic purine 5'-nucleotidase protein, is involved in the cellular metabolism of purines.

(NT5C2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes P2Y purinoceptor 2, is involved in both purine binding and signal transduction.

(P2RY2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in purine metabolism.

(NT5C2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)