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cytidine

American  
[sit-i-deen, -din, sahy-ti-] / ˈsɪt ɪˌdin, -dɪn, ˈsaɪ tɪ- /

noun

Biochemistry.
  1. a white crystalline powder, C 9 H 13 N 3 O 5 , that is a ribonucleoside consisting of d -ribose and cytosine.


cytidine British  
/ ˈsɪtɪˌdaɪn /

noun

  1. biochem a nucleoside formed by the condensation of cytosine and ribose

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Etymology

Origin of cytidine

< German Cytidin (1910), equivalent to cyt- cyto- + -idin suffix of organic compounds

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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

Chief among these is the fact that cytidine deaminase is toxic to mammalian cells.

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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