RT Book, Section
A1 Janson, Lee W.
A1 Tischler, Marc E.
SR Print(0)
ID 1152118033
T1 NUCLEOSIDES, NUCLEOTIDES, DNA, AND RNA
T2 The Big Picture: Medical Biochemistry
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071637916
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1152118033
RD 2024/04/19
AB Nucleosides  and  nucleotides  are  the  fourth  and  final  major  group  of  biochemical  molecules  and  are  essential  for  numerous  biological  functions  in  humans,  including  maintaining  and  transferring  genetic  information,  playing  a  major  role  in  energy  storage,  and  acting  as  signaling  molecules.  These  molecules  can  be  divided  into  two  major  families—purines,  which  include  adenosine  and  guanine,  and  pyrimidines,  which  include  cytosine,  thymidine,  and  uracil.  The  unique  structures  and  interactions  of  these  molecules  serve  as  the  building  blocks  of  RNA  and  DNA  molecules  and  allow  fundamental  processes  of  gene  replication  and  protein  synthesis  to  occur.  Many  other  functions  of  the  various  nucleosides  and  nucleotides  will  be  explored  in  later  chapters.