homopyrimidine

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Etymology[edit]

homo- +‎ pyrimidine

Adjective[edit]

homopyrimidine

  1. (genetics) Describing a pairing of a pyrimidine with the same one on a neighboring strand of nucleic acid
    • 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ].

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