Purine

/ˈpjʊəɹiːn/

Synonyms for "purine" (6 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(2 words)
heterocyclic compoundnitrogen-containing heterocycle

Strong matches (1)

Noun(1 words)

Related words (3)

Noun(3 words)
purine analogspurine basepurine derivatives

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

7 entries
alkalibasechemical derivativeheterocyclic compoundnitrogen-containing heterocyclenitrogenous basenucleobase

More specific

4 entries
adenineguaninepurine analogpurine nucleotide

Collocations

6 entries
purine analogpurine basepurine biosynthesispurine metabolismpurine nucleotidepurine ring system

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries
purine analogpurine derivative

Sample sentences

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1982, Ray A. Field, Mechanically Deboned Red Meat, C. O. Chichester, George Franklin Stewart, Advances in Food Research, Volume 27, page 67, Clifford et al. (1976) investigated the metabolism of individual purines and found that adenine, and to a lesser extent hypoxanthine, had pronounced effects on blood uric acid levels. The purine content of foods, in particular adenine, would therefore be of immense nutritional significance.

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For example, for purine-pyrimidine and for pyrimidine-purine base steps the presence of purines on opposite strands in successive base pairs sterically restricts the conformations that these base pairs can adopt relative to each other.

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The discovery that certain pyrazolopyrimidine nucleobases and nucleosides, analogs of naturally occurring purines, are toxic to Leishmania, coupled with the obligatory nature of the leishmanial purine salvage pathway, has spawned considerable interest in the purine salvage pathway as a drug target.

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