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- adjective chemistry Describing any compound formally derived from another by
replacement of ahydroxy group by ahydrogen atom
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Both the new and classical enzymatic reactions complete a key step in producing the DNA building block by adding a methyl group -- one carbon atom attached to three hydrogen atoms -- to the building block's precursor molecule called deoxy-uridine monophosphate, or dUMP.
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Both the new and classical enzymatic reactions complete a key step in producing the DNA building block by adding a methyl group -- one carbon atom attached to three hydrogen atoms -- to the building block's precursor molecule called deoxy-uridine monophosphate, or dUMP.
innovations-report 2009
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Both the new and classical enzymatic reactions complete a key step in producing the DNA building block by adding a methyl group -- one carbon atom attached to three hydrogen atoms -- to the building block's precursor molecule called deoxy-uridine monophosphate, or dUMP.
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Prior to the team's discovery, it was thought that thymidylate synthase, or TS, was the primary enzyme catalyzing a reaction that produced one of the four DNA building blocks called deoxy-thymidine monophosphate.
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Both the new and classical enzymatic reactions complete a key step in producing the DNA building block by adding a methyl group -- one carbon atom attached to three hydrogen atoms -- to the building block's precursor molecule called deoxy-uridine monophosphate, or dUMP.
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Prior to the team's discovery, it was thought that thymidylate synthase, or TS, was the primary enzyme catalyzing a reaction that produced one of the four DNA building blocks called deoxy-thymidine monophosphate.
unknown title 2009
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Prior to the team's discovery, it was thought that thymidylate synthase, or TS, was the primary enzyme catalyzing a reaction that produced one of the four DNA building blocks called deoxy-thymidine monophosphate.
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Both the new and classical enzymatic reactions complete a key step in producing the DNA building block by adding a methyl group -- one carbon atom attached to three hydrogen atoms -- to the building block's precursor molecule called deoxy-uridine monophosphate, or dUMP.
unknown title 2009
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Prior to the team's discovery, it was thought that thymidylate synthase, or TS, was the primary enzyme catalyzing a reaction that produced one of the four DNA building blocks called deoxy-thymidine monophosphate.
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For PET imaging, the main radiopharmaceutical is Fluoro-deoxy glucose (FDG) incorporating F-18, with a half-life of just under two hours, as a tracer.
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