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Nitrogenous base | Ribonucleoside | Deoxyribonucleoside |
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Adenine |
Adenosine |
Deoxyadenosine |
Guanine |
Guanosine |
Deoxyguanosine |
Thymine |
5-Methyluridine |
Thymidine |
Uracil |
Uridine |
Deoxyuridine |
Cytosine |
Cytidine |
Deoxycytidine |
Nucleosides are glycosylamines consisting of a nucleobase (often referred to as simply base) bound to a ribose or deoxyribose sugar via a beta-glycosidic linkage. Examples of nucleosides include cytidine, uridine, adenosine, guanosine, thymidine and inosine.
Nucleosides can be phosphorylated by specific kinases in the cell on the sugar's primary alcohol group (-CH2-OH), producing nucleotides, which are the molecular building-blocks of DNA and RNA.
Nucleosides can be produced by de novo synthesis pathways, in particular in the liver, but they are more abundantly supplied via ingestion and digestion of nucleic acids in the diet, whereby nucleotidases break down nucleotides (such as the thymidine monophosphate) into nucleosides (such as thymidine) and phosphate. The nucleosides, in turn, are subsequently broken down:
In addition, nucleotides can be broken down:
In medicine several nucleoside analogues are used as antiviral or anticancer agents. The viral polymerase incorporates these compounds with non-canonical bases. These compounds are activated in the cells by being converted into nucleotides. They are administered as nucleosides since charged nucleotides cannot easily cross cell membranes.
In molecular biology, several analogues of the sugar backbone exist. Due to the low stability of RNA, which is prone to hydrolysis, several more stable alternative nucleoside/nucleotide analogues that correctly bind to RNA are used. This is achieved by using a different backbone sugar. These analogues include LNA, morpholino, PNA.
In sequencing, dideoxynucleotides are used. These nucleotides possess the non-canonical sugar dideoxyribose, which lacks 3' hydroxyl group (which accepts the phosphate). It therefore cannot bond with the next base and terminates the chain, as DNA polymerases cannot distinguish between it and a regular deoxyribonucleotide.
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リンク元 | 「nucleosidic」「ヌクレオシド」 |
拡張検索 | 「ribonucleoside diphosphate reductase」「dideoxynucleoside」「nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors」「nucleoside diphosphate sugar」「methylated nucleoside」 |
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