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Uracil undergoes amide-imidic acid tautomeric shifts because any nuclear instability the molecule may have from the lack of formal aromaticity is compensated by the cyclic-amidic stability. [5] The amide tautomer is referred to as the lactam structure, while the imidic acid tautomer is referred to as the lactim structure.
Similarly, the simple-ring structure of cytosine, uracil, and thymine is derived of pyrimidine, so those three bases are called the pyrimidine bases. [6] Each of the base pairs in a typical double-helix DNA comprises a purine and a pyrimidine: either an A paired with a T or a C paired with a G.
The general structure of a ribonucleotide consists of a phosphate group, a ribose sugar group, and a nucleobase, in which the nucleobase can either be adenine, guanine, cytosine, or uracil. Without the phosphate group, the composition of the nucleobase and sugar is known as a nucleoside.
Pseudouridine is the C5-glycoside isomer of uridine that contains a C-C bond between C1 of the ribose sugar and C5 of uracil, rather than usual C1-N1 bond found in uridine. Uridine is converted to pseudouridine by rotating the uridine molecule 180° across its N3-C6 axis. [3]
Nucleic acid structure refers to the structure of nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA. Chemically speaking, DNA and RNA are very similar. Chemically speaking, DNA and RNA are very similar. Nucleic acid structure is often divided into four different levels: primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary.
Nucleosides are glycosylamines that can be thought of as nucleotides without a phosphate group.A nucleoside consists simply of a nucleobase (also termed a nitrogenous base) and a five-carbon sugar (ribose or 2'-deoxyribose) whereas a nucleotide is composed of a nucleobase, a five-carbon sugar, and one or more phosphate groups.
mRNA uses uracil (U) instead of thymine (T) in DNA. uracil (U) is the complementary base to adenine (A) during transcription instead of thymine (T). Thus, when using a template strand of DNA to build RNA, thymine is replaced with uracil.
22256 Ensembl ENSG00000076248 ENSMUSG00000029591 UniProt P13051 P97931 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_080911 NM_003362 NM_001040691 NM_011677 RefSeq (protein) NP_003353 NP_550433 NP_001035781 NP_035807 Location (UCSC) Chr 12: 109.1 – 109.11 Mb Chr 5: 114.27 – 114.28 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Uracil-DNA glycosylase (also known as UNG or UDG) is an enzyme. Its most ...