English Explanatory Dictionary

depyrimidination

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A process in which the chemical bond linking a pyrimidine (cytosine or thymine) to a deoxyribose sugar breaks spontaneously. It occurs at a lower rate compared to depurination with only 500 cytosine and thymine bases lost per cell per day in a typical mammalian cell.

Word forms

depyrimidination depyrimidinations

Etymology

From de- + pyrimidine + -ation.

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