Definition of Guanosine

1. Noun. A nucleoside component of DNA; composed of guanine and deoxyribose.

Exact synonyms: Deoxyguanosine
Generic synonyms: Nucleoside

Definition of Guanosine

1. Noun. (biochemistry genetics) A nucleoside derived from guanine and ribose. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Guanosine

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Guanosine

1. The nucleoside formed by linking ribose to guanine. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Guanosine

guanin
guanine
guanine aminase
guanine cell
guanine deaminase
guanine deoxyribonucleotide
guanine ribonucleotide
guanines
guanins
guano bat
guanochlor sulfate
guanodine
guanodines
guanos
guanosine (current term)
guanosine 5'-diphosphate
guanosine 5'-monophosphate
guanosine 5'-o-(3-thiotriphosphate)
guanosine 5'-triphosphate
guanosine 5'-triphosphate 3'-diphosphate pyrophosphorylase
guanosine diphosphate
guanosine diphosphate fucose
guanosine diphosphate mannose
guanosine diphosphate sugars
guanosine monophosphate
guanosine pentaphosphate
guanosine pentaphosphate synthetase
guanosine phosphotransferase
guanosine tetraphosphate

Literary usage of Guanosine

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

1. Nucleic Acids: Their Chemical Properties and Physiological Conduct by Walter Jones (1914)
"Preparation of Guanylic Acid and guanosine from Yeast Nucleic Acid. A mixture of 200 g. of commercial yeast powder (Lebedew [1911]), ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Pmr frequencies of guanosine protons in DMSO solutions containing 0.1 M guanosine and varying concentrations of ZnCl,, 36°. ..."

3. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten, Sven Gustaf Hedin (1914)
"Of special interest is guanosine because it is identical with the base ... The guanosine has also been found by LEVENE and JACOBS 3 in the pancreas. ..."

4. Gout by Richard Llewellyn Jones Llewellyn, William Mardon Beaumont (1921)
"guanosine. (2) Purin-nuclease (which splits off the purin radicle, viz., ... guanosine-deaminase. Xanthosine. In the latter instance a hydrolysing enzyme, ..."

5. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"... but it is either in purine 7 or 8 as is figured, and probably the latter, although Burian thought the union was in number 7. guanosine is, therefore ..."

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