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| Physical Characters and Index |
English name: Uridine
CAS No. : 58-96-8
Molecular formula: C9H12N2O6
Molecular weight: 244.2
EINECS number: 200-407-5 |
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| Use and description |
| Uridine is a glycosylated pyrimidine analog containing uracil attached to a ribose ring via a β-N₁-glycosidic bond. The analog is one of the five standard nucleosides which make up nucleic acids, the others being adenosine, thymidine, cytidine and guanosine. The five nucleosides are commonly abbreviated to their symbols, U, A, dT, C, and G, respectively. However, thymidine is more commonly written as ’dT’ as it contains a 2’-deoxyribofuranose moiety rather than the ribofuranose ring found in uridine. This is because thymidine is found in deoxyribonucleic acid and usually not in ribonucleic acid. Conversely, uridine is found in RNA and not DNA. The remaining three nucleosides may be found in both RNA and DNA. In RNA, they would be represented as A, C and G whereas in DNA they would be represented as dA, dC and dG. |
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