Medical Definition of One-carbon fragment

1. The formyl group or the methyl group that takes part in transformylation or transmethylation reactions; by means of these reactions, a group containing a single carbon atom is added to a compound being biosynthesised, adding a methyl group (as in thymidine formation), adding a hydroxymethyl group (as in serine biosynthesis), or closing a ring (as in purine formation). (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of One-carbon Fragment

Ondine
ondine
Ondine's curse
ondines
onding
ondings
Ondiri disease
ondogram
ondograms
one
one(a)
one-and-one
one-armed
one-armed bandit
one-billionth
one-carbon fragment (current term)
one-carbon group transferases
one-celled
one-dimensional
one-dimensionality
one-dimensional language
one-eared
one-eighth
one-eyed
one-fifth
one-flowered pyrola
one-flowered wintergreen
one-fourth
one-half
one-hand

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