adenine

See also: Adenine and adénine

English

Structure diagram of adenine

Etymology

From German Adenin, from Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn, “gland”). By surface analysis, aden- +‎ -ine. It was named in 1885 by the German biochemist Albrecht Kossel, in reference to the pancreas (a specific gland) from which Kossel's sample had been extracted.

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

adenine (countable and uncountable, plural adenines)

2. (biochemistry, genetics) A base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA.

   Hypernyms: nucleobase, purine

   Coordinate terms: cytosine, guanine, thymine, uracil

   • 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”, in Alasdair MacKenzie, editor, YAC Protocols‎^[2], 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”, in Chérif F. Matta, editor, Quantum Biochemistry‎^[3], page 202:

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

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• adenosine
• adenylate
• adenylic acid

 

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
• Italian: adenina (it) f
• Japanese: アデニン (ja) (adenin)
• Kazakh: аденин (adenin)
• Kyrgyz: аденин (ky) (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)

Italian

Noun

adenine f pl

1. plural of adenina

Anagrams

• enneadi, neanide