Thymine-guanine

DNA is made up ot two intertwined strands. A sugar-phosphate chain makes up the backbone of each, and the two strands are joined by way of hydrogen bonds betwen parrs of nucleotide bases, adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine. Adenine may only pair with thymine and guanine with cytosine. The molecule adopts a helical structure (actually, a double helical stnrcture or double helix ). 

Conjugation via Bromine Activation of Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine... 

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There are five possible bases, shown below. DNA is made using the bases adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine. RNA is made using the bases adenine, uracil, guanine, and cytosine. The specific sequence of the bases in a strand of DNA makes up a specific code. The code contains all the information that is needed to make a particular organism. 

In addition to the protein and low-molecular-weight thiols that react with PAN, there are several other reactive biochemicals. Reduced nicotinamide derivatives are susceptible to oxidation by PAN (at 72 ppm for 1-5 min), whereas the oxidized forms are resistant. The capability of PAN to oxidize these compounds rapidly dissipates in aqueous solution, with a half-life of 4-10 min, depending on pH. The oxidation products appear to be the biologically active forms of the nicotinamide derivatives. Purines and pyrimidines react with PAN (at 1,000 ppm for 30-120 min). The order of sensitivity is thymine, guanine, uracil, cytosine, and adenine. Their reactions were studied at relatively low pH and at high PAN concentration and are probably not of biologic significance. 

DNA uses four bases, which fall into two categories purines and pyrimidines. The four DNA bases are adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine. 

ADDUCT A chemical addition product. For example, when the mutagenic alkylating agent ethyl methanesulfonate reacts with DNA, any of the normal bases in DNA (i.e., adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine) may be converted into adducts, such as N7-ethylguanine and N3-ethylcytosine. 

TRANSITION MUTATION A base-pair substitution mutation in which the purine pyrimidine base-pair orientation is preserved, as in adenine thymine -+ guanine cytosine. 

DNA is a polydeoxynucleotide and among the largest of the biological macromolecules some DNA molecules comprise more than 108 nucleotides. They contain adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine as the bases, and the genetic information is encoded within the nucleotide sequence, which is precisely defined over the entire length of the molecule. One of the simplest methods for determining the nucleotide sequence of DNA makes use of an enzyme, DNA polymerase, which catalyzes the synthesis of DNA. The properties of this enzyme are discussed in Chap. 16. 

Most of the mutations in human APC have been found to result in the conversion of CGA (cytosine-guanine-adenine), which codes for arginine, to TGA (thymine-guanine-adenine), which is a stop codon (Polakis, 1997). The stop codons in m A (UAA, UAG, and UGA) act as a signal during translation that halts polypeptide formation at that point. The result is synthesis of a truncated polypeptide. All t)rpes of mRNA contain stop codons however, if a mutation results in the appearance of a stop codon in a new location, then transcription will stop at that new location. 

Mistakes in DNA replication lead to base-pair mismatches. Use SpartanView to obtain the energies of adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine, an A-T pair, a G-C pair, an A-G pair, and a T-C pair. Calculate the binding energy for each base pair, and account for any diil erences. Which base pairs are flat, and which are twisted Why ... 

Nucleotide - the building block of a nucleic acid, consisting of a five-carbon sugar covalently bonded to a nitrogenous base (adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine, or uracil) and a phosphate group. 

Uracil Thymine Guanine Adenine Cytosine Unknown... 

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