cytidine
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- cytidylic adjective
Etymology
Origin of cytidine
< German Cytidin (1910), equivalent to cyt- cyto- + -idin suffix of organic compounds
Example Sentences
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Integral to the research is CPT, or cytidine triphosphate, and its role in the binding process.
From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2023
The compound can shift its configuration, sometimes mimicking the nucleoside cytidine and sometimes mimicking uridine.
From Scientific American • Oct. 12, 2021
A remarkable feature of DddA is that it targets double-stranded DNA, whereas all previously identified3 cytidine deaminases target single-stranded DNA.
From Nature • Jul. 7, 2020
Working with Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy’s team at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., he and his colleagues showed that the ribonucleosides cytidine and uridine could be transformed into deoxyribose and the nucleoside and deoxyadenosine.
From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2020
To avoid triggering inflammation, the researchers replaced some of the RNA's molecular building blocks — the nucleosides uridine and cytidine — with pseudouridine and 5-methylcytidine.
From Nature • Jun. 2, 2015
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