Deoxyribonucleic acids deoxyribose

The sugars are typically ribose (ribonucleic acids, RNA), or 2-deoxyribose (deoxyribonucleic acids, DNA). There are five common bases in nucleic acids adenine (A) thymine (T) uracil (U) cytosine (C) and guanine (G). DNA polymers incorporate the four bases. A, T, C, and G, and RNA, the set A, U, C, and G. 

Cytosine was isolated from hydrolysis of calf thymus in 1894 and by 1903 its structure was known and it had been synthesized from 2-ethylthiopyrimidin-4(3H)-one. The acid hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid gives nucleotides, among which are two cytidylic acids, 2 -and 3 -phosphates of cytidine further hydrolysis gives cytidine itself, i.e. the 1-/3-D-ribofuranoside of cytosine, and thence cytosine. The deoxyribonucleic acids likewise yield deoxyribonucleotides, including cytosine deoxyribose-5 -phosphate, from which the phosphate may be removed to give cytosine deoxyriboside and thence cytosine. 

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) (Section 28.7) A polynucleotide of 2 -deoxyribose present in the nuclei of cells that serves to store and replicate genetic information. Genes are DNA. 

As is well-known, nucleic acids consist of a polymeric chain of monotonously reiterating molecules of phosphoric acid and a sugar. In ribonucleic acid, the sugar component is represented by n-ribose, in deoxyribonucleic acid by D-2-deoxyribose. To this chain pyrimidine and purine derivatives are bound at the sugar moieties, these derivatives being conventionally, even if inaccurately, termed as pyrimidine and purine bases. The bases in question are uracil (in ribonucleic acids) or thymine (in deoxyribonucleic acids), cytosine, adenine, guanine, in some cases 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcyto-sine. In addition to these, a number of the so-called odd bases occurring in small amounts in some ribonucleic acid fractions have been isolated. 

Deoxy sugars, as we saw in Section 25.7, have an oxygen atom "missing." That is, an —OH group is replaced by an -H. The most common deoxy sugar is 2-deoxyribose, a monosaccharide found in DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). Note that 2-deoxyribose exists in water solution as a complex equilibrium mixture of both furanose and pyranose forms. 

The nucleic acids DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid) are biological polymers that act as chemical carriers of an organism s genetic information. Enzyme-catalyzed hydrolysis of nucleic acids yields nucleotides, the monomer units from which RNA and DNA are constructed. Further enzyme-catalyzed hydrolysis of the nucleotides yields nucleosides plus phosphate. Nucleosides, in turn, consist of a purine or pyrimidine base linked to Cl of an aldopentose sugar—ribose in RNA and 2-deoxyribose in DNA. The nucleotides are joined by phosphate links between the 5 phosphate of one nucleotide and the 3 hydroxyl on the sugar of another nucleotide. 

Figure 9.12 Deoxy derivatives. These contain one less oxygen atom than the monosaccharide from which they are derived. 2-Deoxyribose is a most important deoxy pentose and is a major constituent of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Deoxy hexoses are widely distributed among plants, animals and microorganisms especially as components of complex polysaccharides. Examples are rhamnose (6-deoxymannose), a component of bacterial cell walls, and fucose (6-deoxygalactose), which is often found in glycoproteins and is an important constituent of human blood group substances.

Like RNAs (see p.82), deoxyribonucleic acids (DNAs) are polymeric molecules consisting of nucleotide building blocks. Instead of ribose, however, DNA contains 2 -deoxyribose, and the uracil base in RNA is replaced by thymine. The spatial structure of the two molecules also differs (see p.86). 

Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Sugar 2-deoxyribose, a phosphate group and a heterocyclic base. The base is either purine A or G and pyrimidine C or T. 

Nucleic Acid. A nucleic acid is a natural polynucleotide. It is a sugar-phosphate chain with purine and pyrimidine bases attached to it, as shown in Chart 10. If the sugar is deoxyribose and the pyrimidine bases are cytosine and thymine, the nucleic acid is deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA if the sugar is ribose, and the pyrimidine bases are (mostly) cytosine and uracil, the nucleic acid is ribonucleic acid, RNA. The sequence of bases may appear arbitrary and random, but it constitutes a meaningful code (see Code Word). In double-stranded nucleic acids,... 

What s DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid, the helical ladderlike chain of molecules that makes up genes. DNA consists of a sugar molecule called deoxyribose (it is somewhat related to glucose), a nitrogen-containing molecule called a base, and phosphate atoms bonded to the other two components. It is the sequence of base pairs (one base on each strand) in DNA that determines the end-product (e.g., protein). The human genome— the entire DNA content of a human being—contains approximately 3 billion base pairs. 

The nucleic acids, rna (ribonucleic acid) and dna (deoxyribonucleic acid), are carbohydrate biopolymers. The repeating sugar in rna is ribose, and in dna it is 2-deoxyribose. 

The nucleic acids, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA), are the chemical carriers of a cell s genetic information. Nucleic acids are biopolymers made of nucleotides joined together to form a long chain. These biopolymers are often found associated with proteins, and in this form they are called nucleoproteins. Each nucleotide comprises a nucleoside bonded to a phosphate group, and each nucleoside is composed of an aldopentose sugar, ribose or 2-deoxyribose, linked to a heterocyclic purine or pyrimidine base (see Section 4.7). 

Deoxyhemerythrin, oxygenation of 862 Deoxyhemoglobin 850, 851 Deoxy-D-mannooctulosonic acid (KDO) 180s Deoxyribonuclease 652 - 653 Deoxyribonucleic acid. See DNA 2-Deoxyribose 200s 1-Deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate 735, 736 Dephosphorylation, cascade 542 Depsides 23 Depsipeptide 414... 

The formation of deoxyribose, die pentose moiety of deoxyribonucleic acid, can occur directly from ribose while the latter is in the form of a nucleotide diphosphate. Deoxyribose-5-phosphate can also be formed by condensation of acetaldehyde and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate. 

An even more remarkable prediction was made by Crick and Watson (1953) of the structure of the vast molecules, such as that of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which are concerned with the maintenance and transference of genetic information. These molecules contain very long chains of nucleotide units linked by covalency bonds. (A nucleotide consists of the residue of a sugar, often ribose or deoxyribose, one of a purine or pyrimidine base, and one of phosphoric acid, bonded together.) The Crick-Watson hypothesis was that the macromolecule consists of two such chains,... 

The basic monomers of nucleic acids are nucleotides which are made up of heterocyclic nitrogen-containing compounds, purines and pyrimidines, linked to pentose sugars. There are two types of nucleic acids and these can be distinguished on the basis of the sugar moiety of the molecule, Ribonucleic acids (RNA) contain ribose, while deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) contains deoxyribose. The bases cytosine (C) adenine (A) and guanine (G) are common in both RNA and DNA. However, RNA molecules contain a unique base, uracil (U), while the unique DNA base is thymidine (T). These differences in the base structure markedly affect the secondary structures of these polymers. The structures of DNA and RNA are outlined in Appendix 5.2. 

Disulfide bridge. A covalent linkage formed by oxidation between two SH groups either in the same polypeptide chain or in different polypeptide chains. DNA. Deoxyribonucleic acid. A poly-deoxyribonucleotide in which the sugar is deoxyribose the main repository of genetic information in all cells and most viruses. 

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