lysidine

L1Y4S1I1D2I1N1E1

noun

A nucleoside derived from cytidine

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounlysidine (uncountable)
  1. uncountablechemistryA nucleoside derived from cytidine

    The MesJ protein is a well-known cell-cycle protein that is directly responsible for lysidine formation and thus is essential for decoding AUA codons in vivo.

    2015 July 4, Jiangtao Guo et al., “Horizontal gene transfer in an acid mine drainage microbial community”, in BMC Genomics, volume 16, →DOI

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