Get to know Adenine better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like purine.
Adenine in a sentence
Adenine meaning
A base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA.
Synonyms of Adenine
Using Adenine
- The main meaning on this page is: A base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA.
- Useful related words include: a, purine.
- In the example corpus, adenine often appears in combinations such as: adenine and, nicotinamide adenine, adenine dinucleotide.
Context around Adenine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 16 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Adenine
- In this selection, "adenine" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bases, general, dna, thymine, nucleotide and binds stand out and add context to how "adenine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 3 poly adenine tail is and adenine binds with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "adenine" sits close to words such as abbe, abeyance and abp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with adenine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ethidium intercalated between two adenine-thymine base pairs. (8 words)
Depiction of the adenine thymine Watson-Crick base pair. (9 words)
Hermann Emil Fischer was one of the early scientists to study adenine. (12 words)
Expansion of CAG ( cytosine adenine guanine ) triplet repeats in the gene coding for the Huntingtin protein results in an abnormal protein, which gradually damages cells in the brain, through mechanisms that are not fully understood. (35 words)
On the 3'ss (3' splicing site), the base pairs adenine and cytosine alternate and repeat, and on the 5'ss (5' splicing site), their complements thymine and guanine alternate and repeat as well. (34 words)
All genetic coding is formed by four bases: adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine -- or A, T, C and G. All healthy base pairs are either A-T or C-G. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Adenine binds with thymine and uracil; Thymine binds only with adenine; and cytosine and guanine can bind only with one another.
All genetic coding is formed by four bases: adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine -- or A, T, C and G. All healthy base pairs are either A-T or C-G.
A base is attached to the 1' position, in general, adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), or uracil (U).
Adenine pairs with thymine (two hydrogen bonds), and guanine pairs with cytosine (stronger: three hydrogen bonds).
An example of a transversion is the conversion of adenine (A) into a cytosine (C).
Bacteria also use DNA adenine methylation (rather than DNA cytosine methylation) as an epigenetic signal.
Depiction of the adenine thymine Watson-Crick base pair.
During the metabolism of alcohol via the respective dehydrogenases, NAD ( Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide ) is converted into reduced NAD.
Ethidium intercalated between two adenine-thymine base pairs.
Expansion of CAG ( cytosine adenine guanine ) triplet repeats in the gene coding for the Huntingtin protein results in an abnormal protein, which gradually damages cells in the brain, through mechanisms that are not fully understood.
Further upstream from the polypyrimidine tract is the branchpoint, which includes an adenine nucleotide involved in lariat formation.
Here, purines form hydrogen bonds to pyrimidines, with adenine bonding only to thymine in two hydrogen bonds, and cytosine bonding only to guanine in three hydrogen bonds.
Hermann Emil Fischer was one of the early scientists to study adenine.
In 1961, Joan Oró found that the nucleotide base adenine could be made from hydrogen cyanide (HCN) and ammonia in a water solution.
In DNA, thymine (T) binds to adenine (A) via two hydrogen bonds, thereby stabilizing the nucleic acid structures.
Inosine occurs in tRNAs, and will pair with adenine, cytosine, or thymine.
On the 3'ss (3' splicing site), the base pairs adenine and cytosine alternate and repeat, and on the 5'ss (5' splicing site), their complements thymine and guanine alternate and repeat as well.
Poly(A) tail main The 3' poly(A) tail is a long sequence of adenine nucleotides (often several hundred) added to the 3' end of the pre-mRNA.
ROS increases uncoupling proteins (UCPs) and potentiate proton leakage through the adenine nucleotide translocator (ANT), the combination of which uncouples the mitochondria.
The 3' poly- adenine tail is only added after transcription is complete.
Common combinations with adenine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: