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Definition of Mononucleotide

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Mononucleotide

1. Phosphate esters of nucleosides. The metabolic precursors of nucleic acids are monoesters with phosphate on carbon 5 of the pentose (known as 5' to distinguish sugar from base numbering). However many other structures, such as adenosine 3'5' cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) and molecules with 2 or 3 phosphates are also called nucleotides. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mononucleotide

Literary usage of Mononucleotide

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1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The base, forming the link at the other end of the mononucleotide chain, is different for ... Guanin-mononucleotide (=Phosphoric acid—d-ribose — guanin). 2. ..."

2. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"Another mononucleotide, inosinic acid, has been prepared from meat extract. It consists of xanthine, pentose and phosphoric acid, and is identical with ..."

3. Food Chemicals Codex: First Supplement to the Fifth Edition by Committee on Food Chemicals Codex, Institute of Medicine (U. S.) (2006)
"... 318 Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophoto- metric Method, 868-869 Flavin mononucleotide, Sodium Salt, 384-386, (SI) 37 Flavor Chemicals Acetaldehyde, ..."

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