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pentapyrimidines

pentapyrimidines is the plural of pentapyrimidine.

Meaning of pentapyrimidine

Noun

pentapyrimidine (plural pentapyrimidines)

  1. A sequence of five pyrimidines in a nucleic acid
    • The enzyme recognizes a specific pentapyrimidine sequence of 5’-(C/T)CCTT↓-3’ and hydrolyzes the phosphodiester bond at the 3’-end of its recognition site [4 ].2015 October 1, “An Alternative Method to Facilitate cDNA Cloning for Expression Studies in Mammalian Cells by Introducing Positive Blue White Selection in Vaccinia Topoisomerase I-Mediated...

Questions about pentapyrimidines

What is pentapyrimidines the plural of?
Pentapyrimidines is the plural of pentapyrimidine.

Words near pentapyrimidines in the dictionary

  1. pentaptote
  2. pentaptotes
  3. pentaptych
  4. pentaptychs
  5. pentapyrimidine
  6. pentapyrimidines
  7. pentapyrrolic
  8. pentaquadrupole
  9. pentaquark
  10. pentaquarks
  11. pentaquin

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