Definition of Oligonucleotide

1. Noun. A short sequence of nucleotides (RNA or DNA), typically with twenty or fewer base pairs. ¹

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Definition of Oligonucleotide

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Oligonucleotide

1. Linear sequence of up to 20 nucleotides joined by phosphodiester bonds. Above this length the term polynucleotide begins to be used. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oligonucleotide

oligomerized
oligomerizes
oligomerizing
oligomerous
oligomers
oligomineral
oligomorphic
oligomycin
oligomycin sensitivity conferral protein
oligomycins
oligomyold
oligonephronic
oligonucleosomal
oligonucleosome
oligonucleotidase
oligonucleotide (current term)
oligonucleotide probes
oligonucleotides
oligopepsia
oligopeptidase
oligopeptide
oligopeptide 20
oligopeptide permease
oligopeptides
oligopetalous
oligophagies
oligophagous
oligophagy
oligophenylene
oligophenylenes

Literary usage of Oligonucleotide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Application of Pcr Technology to Plant Breeding by Andrew Kalinski (1995)
"... method uses allele-specific oligonucleotide primers in PCR amplifications to amplify and discriminate simultaneously between polymorphic alleles. ..."

2. Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks: Protecting Buildings and by Bmed, National Research Council (U.S.), ebrary, Inc (2005)
"RNA readily 20 RT Drmanac and RB Crkvenjakov, Hyseq Technology. April 13, 1993. Method of sequencing genomes by hybridization of oligonucleotide probes. ..."

3. Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics by Edward R Dougherty (2005)
"Also, the design of probes is different, for instance, cDNA array uses the whole DNA sequence to prepare the probes, while oligonucleotide array uses a set ..."

4. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"To address this question, we coinjected the CRE reporter construct with either an oligonucleotide that encodes the wild-type CRE sequence and binds CREB or ..."

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