uridine

American  

[yoor-i-deen, -din] / ˈyʊər ɪˌdin, -dɪn /

noun

Biochemistry.

1. a ribonucleoside composed of ribose and uracil.

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uridine British  

/ ˈjʊərɪˌdiːn /

noun

1. biochem a nucleoside present in all living cells in a combined form, esp in RNA

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Etymology

Origin of uridine

C20: from _uro- ¹ + _-ide + _-ine ²

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Example Sentences

Researchers say cancer cells need to run out of pyrimidine building blocks, including uridine nucleotides, before the cells will self-destruct.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2024

The irony, researchers say, is that a low-glucose tumor microenvironment is in turn slowing down cellular consumption of uridine nucleotides and presumably slowing down rates of cell death.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2024

Some researchers have cautioned that self-amplifying vaccines cannot use an mRNA modification that is key to the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines: the replacement of the natural RNA building block uridine with pseudouridine.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 21, 2022

The compound can shift its configuration, sometimes mimicking the nucleoside cytidine and sometimes mimicking uridine.

From Scientific American • Oct. 12, 2021

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