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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. 

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) Molecules including messenger RNA, transfer RNA, ribosomal RNA, or small RNA. RNA serves as a template for protein synthesis and other biochemical processes of the cell. The structure of RNA is similar to that of DNA except for the base thymidine being replaced by uracil. 

A detailed discussion of the modes of occurrence and biological importance of the polynucleotides is outside the scope of this article. However, in examining the structures of polynucleotides, it is necessary to take into consideration the origins of the materials studied. The pioneer researches of Caspersson114 indicated that deoxyribonucleic acids are present exclusively in the nucleus, whereas ribonucleic acids are found chiefly in the cytoplasm and only to a small extent in the nucleus. This general outline of the distribution of nucleic acids within the cell has been confirmed and extended by more recent work,116 and it has been possible to isolate both types of nucleic acid from different cellular fractions of the same tissue.116... 

By hydrolysis under very mild alkaline conditions (with a boiling suspension of barium carbonate), ribonucleic acids have been shown to yield small quantities of cyclic phosphates as well as the normal nucleotides.96 These materials were identical electrophoretically with synthetic cyclic phosphates and were readily hydrolyzed to mixtures of 2- and 3-phosphates. Their formation in this way constitutes strong support for Brown and Todd s theory. The precise way in which the alkaline hydrolysis of the polynucleotide occurs has been studied using isotopically labeled water, and the results are in agreement202 with the scheme outlined above. 

NeuAc N-acetyineuraminic acid snRNA Small nuclear ribonucleic acid... 

The most important pyrimidine derivatives are those upon which biological organisms depend. Cytosine 1018 and uracil 1019 are found in ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the form of their ribonucleotides, cytidine 1020 and uridine 1021, while in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), cytosine and thymine 1022 are found in the form of their 2 -deoxyribonucleotides, 2 -deoxycytidine 1023 and thymidine 1024. 5-Methylcytosine 1025 is also found to a small extent (c. 5%) in human DNA in the form of its 2 -deoxyriboside 1026, and 5-(hydroxymethyl)cytosine-2 -deoxyriboside 1027 has also been detected in smaller amounts <2005CBI1>. Many variants of cytosine and uracil can be found in RNA including orotic acid 1028 in the form of its ribonucleotide orotidine 1029. Other pyrimidine derivatives to have been isolated from various biological sources include 2 -deoxyuridine 1030, alloxan 1031, and toxopyrimidine (pyramine) 1032 (Figure 2). 

Viruses have no cell wall and made up of nucleic acid core enclosed in a protein coat which consists of identical subunits. Viruses are of two types, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) viruses and RNA (ribonucleic acid) viruses. DNA viruses are herpes simplex, small pox, hepatitis B, varicellazoster etc. and RNA viruses are rabies, measles, dengue, rubella, yellow fever, poliomyelitis and HIV etc. 

Ribonuclease, another small globular protein (Mt 13,700), is an enzyme secreted by the pancreas into the small intestine, where it catalyzes the hydrolysis of certain bonds in the ribonucleic acids present in ingested... 

Ribonuclease is an enzyme with 124 amino acids. Its function is to cleave ribonucleic acid (RNA) into small fragments. A solution containing pure protein, with no other ions present except H+ and OH- derived from the protein and water, is said to be isoionic. From this point near pH 9.6 in the graph, the protein can be titrated with acid or base. Of the 124 amino acids, 16 can be protonated by acid and 20 can lose protons to added base. From the shape of the titration curve, it is possible to deduce the approximate pATa for each titratable group.1-2 This information provides insight into the environment of that amino acid in the protein. In ribonuclease, three tyrosine residues have "normal values of pATa(=10) (Table 10-1) and three others have pA a >12. The interpretation is that three tyrosine groups are accessible to OH, and three are buried inside the protein where they cannot be easily titrated. The solid line in the illustration is calculated from pA"a values for all titratable groups. 

Small ribonucleic acid (RNA) containing viruses. For example, polio viruses, which destroy the anterior horn cells leading to lower motor neuron paralysis, are of this type. 

Y10. Yuan, A., Yang, P. C., Yu, C. J., Chen, W. J., Lin, F. Y., Kuo, S. H., andLuh, K. T., Interleukin-8 messenger ribonucleic acid expression correlates with tumor progression, tumor angiogenesis, patient survival, and timing of relapse in non-small-cell lung cancer. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 162, 1957-1963 (2000). 

The discovery of a small proportion of a nucleoside containing thymine42 in the ribonucleic acid of two strains of Escherichia coli, in Aerobacter aero-genes, and in commercial, yeast-ribonucleic acid emphasizes the point made previously,26-28 namely, that the nucleic acids may contain constituents other than those heretofore identified. Alkaline hydrolysis of the ribonucleic acid from E. coli gave nucleotides42 (probably the 2- and 3-phosphate esters) which were converted to the nucleoside with prostatic phospho-monoesterase.62 Enzymic hydrolysis of the nucleic acid preparation also led to the nucleoside, which was degraded further to thymine by hydrolysis with perchloric acid.42 There can be little doubt that this carbohydrate derivative of thymine is intimately bound as part of the polynucleotide chain of this particular ribonucleic acid. 

Deoxyribonucleic acid is the only nucleic acid found in T-even phage,88 and earlier reports89 of the presence of ribonucleic acid in bacterial virus T2 and T6 in small, variable proportions are now attributed88 to a contamina-... 

Ribonucleic acids are found in both the nucleus and the cytoplasm. In the cytoplasm RNA is located mainly in small spherical organelles known as ribosomes, which consist of about 65% RNA and 35% protein. 

Ribonuclease A is a rather small but critically important enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid and, therefore, is crucial for cell function. It has been the subject of intense study for many years [48], As depicted in Scheme 11.1,... 

The sugars and phosphates are omitted in this notation. A comparison of DNA sequences comparison allows one to determine the relationship between different organisms and is also used to find small differences in humans (so-called DNA fingerprinting), see also Nucleic Acids Nucleotide Ribonucleic Acid. 

Raw potatoes contain only very small amounts of 5 -nucleotides and no 5 -GMP. Since ribonucleic acid is the only possible precursor present, an en-... 

The nucleus of the cell (Figure 1.2) is composed of a porous nuclear membrane, the nucleolus, and soluble materials. The nucleolus contains ribonucleic acids (RNA) and genetic materials also termed chromatin that code for the proteins synthesized upon the ribosomes in the cell cytoplasm. The nuclear membrane is continuous with the outer membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum. Messenger RNA synthesized in the nucleus is transported across the nuclear membrane and is involved in protein synthesis. It fits into the groove between the large and small rRNA subunits (Figure 1.2)... 

Approximately 1000 proteins comprise the mitochondrion the majority are encoded on genes located on nuclear DNA. In fact, as seen in Figure 8-5, the mtDNA encodes only 13 proteins. These mtDNA-encoded proteins are the seven subunits (ND1,2,3,4,4L, 5, and 6) of the NADH-dehydrogenase (RC I) one subunit (cytochrome b) of RC III three subunits (CO I, II, and III) of cytochrome c oxidase (RC IV) and two subunits (A6 and A8) of the ATP synthase (RC V).A11 of these proteins are components of the ETC or the ATP synthase involved in OXPHOS. In addition to these 13 proteincoding genes, the mtDNA encodes 22 mitochondrial transfer ribonucleic acids (tRNAs) and two ribosomal RNA (rRNA) molecules (the large 16S rRNA and the small 12S rRNA). 

Transferrin-containing CD polymer-based nanoparticles were studied as nucleic acid delivery system that can be modified for targeted delivery of small interfering ribonucleic acid (siRNA) to cancer cells. Molecular studies showed that the siRNA CD nanoparticles reduced levels of Ewing s transcript by 80% and inhibited growth of cultured Ewing s tumor cell line. It was also reported that this delivery system indicated a lack of toxicity [39],... 

The ribosome is the enzyme that catalyzes peptide bond formation. The bacterial ribosome is a large 2500 kDa ribonucleic acid/protein complex comprised of a large subunit (LSU or SOS subunit) and a small subunit (SSU or 30S subunit) (Fig. 4.1). The small ribosomal subunit binds to messenger RNA (mRNA) and reads the genetic code by aligning its base triplet codons with anticodons of transfer RNA molecules (tRNA). The large ribosomal subunit binds to opposite ends of tRNA molecules and catalyzes peptide bond formation. 

RNA ribonucleic acid mRNA messenger RNA rRNA ribosomal RNA scRNA small cytoplasmic RNA snRNA small nuclear RNA tRNA transfer RNA RNAse ribonuclease Ser serine T thymine Thr threonine... 

The chemistry of tuberculinic acid (the nucleic acid of the tubercle bacillus) was investigated by Brown and Johnson. The acid was purified by conversion to the copper salt. Distillation with hydrochloric acid yielded small amounts of furfural, indicating the presence of only a trace of pentose in the residue. Levulinic acid was identified, and it was thought on this evidence that the sugar associated with the acid was a hexose. Tuberculinic acid is unique in that it does not contain uracil, has a low pentose content and contains an unusual pyrimidine derivative. The tuberculinic acid was considered to be more nearly related to deoxyribonucleic acid than to ribonucleic acid. ... 

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