uridine
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of uridine
C20: from uro- 1 + -ide + -ine ²
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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
Normally, uridine nucleotides would be made and consumed to help make the genetic letter codes and fuel cell metabolism.
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
But the Moderna and Pfizer–BioNTech vaccines use modified RNA, incorporating an mRNA nucleotide called pseudouridine — which is similar to uridine but contains a natural modification — in place of uridine itself.
From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 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
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