adenine

See also: Adenine and adénine

English

Structure diagram of adenine

Etymology

From German Adenin, from Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn, “gland”) + -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.dəˌniːn/, /ˈæ.dɪˌnɪn/

Noun

adenine (countable and uncountable, plural adenines)

1. (biochemistry, genetics) A base, $C_{5}H_{5}N_{5}$, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA.
   • 2002, Nikolai L. Vekshin, Photonics of Biopolymers‎^[1], page 115:

     One of these labels is ethenoadenine, which is obtained by chemical modification of adenine.

   • 2006, David Markie, 1: Markers, Selection, and Media in Yeast Artificial Chromosome Cloning, Alasdair MacKenzie (editor), YAC Protocols, 2nd Edition, page 2,

     There are two genes in the adenine biosynthetic pathway of yeast (ADE1 and ADE2) that, apart from producing an absolute requirement for adenine when mutant, also produce a change in colony color.

   • 2010, Debjani Roy, Rogué Schleyer, 6: Chemical Origin of Life: How do Five HCN Molecules Combine to form Adenine under Prebiotic and Interstellar Conditions, Chérif F. Matta, Quantum Biochemistry, page 202,

     The HCN pentamer, adenine (a constituent of DNA, RNA and many coenzymes), is one of the most abundant biochemical molecules.

Hypernyms

• nucleobase
• purine

Related terms

• adenosine

Derived terms

• arabinofuranosyladenine
• arabinosyladenine
• benzyladenine
• deoxyadenine
• dihydroxyadenine
• homopolyriboadenine
• isopentenyladenine
• methyladenine
• nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
• nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
• nicotinamide adenine trinucleotide
• polyadenine
• propyladenine
• riboadenine

 

Translations

base that pairs with thymine or uracil

• Catalan: adenina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腺嘌呤 (zh) (xiànpiàolìng, xiànpiāolíng)

• Czech: adenin m
• Esperanto: adenino
• Finnish: adeniini (fi)
• French: adénine (fr) f
• German: Adenin (de) n
• Hindi: ग्रन्थ्यूतिनी (granthyūtinī)
• Hungarian: adenin (hu)
• Icelandic: adenín n
• Irish: adainín m
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• Italian: adenina (it) f
• Japanese: アデニン (ja) (adenin)
• Latvian: adenīns (lv) m
• Marathi: ग्रन्थ्यूतिनी (granthyūtinī)
• Nepali: ग्रन्थ्यूतिनी (granthyūtinī)
• Polish: adenina (pl) f
• Portuguese: adenina (pt) f
• Romanian: adenină (ro) f
• Russian: адени́н (ru) m (adɛnín)
• Spanish: adenina f
• Turkish: adenin (tr)

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Italian

Noun

adenine f pl

1. plural of adenina