inosine
noun
ino·sine
ˈi-nə-ˌsēn 
ˈī-
ˈī-
-sən
: a nucleoside C10H12N4O5 that is composed of hypoxanthine and ribose, that in the form of its monophosphate is a biosynthetic precursor of both AMP and its guanosine analog, and that binds to adenine, cytosine, or uracil especially in some transfer RNAs compare poly i entry c
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As Bass and a colleague discovered in the late 1980s, cells often replace one building block in their mRNA molecules, adenosine, with another molecule known as inosine.
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Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 24 Oct. 2024
By replacing the adenosine with inosine, ADARs can essentially correct the mistake, because the cell’s proteinmaking machinery reads the inosine in the mRNA as a guanosine.
—Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 24 Oct. 2024
These proteins bind to RNAs and alter their sequence by changing a familiar base known as adenosine into a molecule called inosine.
—Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
Although not one of the canonical RNA bases, inosine is read by the cell’s protein-translation machinery as the familiar guanosine.
—Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
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Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 24 Oct. 2024
By replacing the adenosine with inosine, ADARs can essentially correct the mistake, because the cell’s proteinmaking machinery reads the inosine in the mRNA as a guanosine.
—Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 24 Oct. 2024
These proteins bind to RNAs and alter their sequence by changing a familiar base known as adenosine into a molecule called inosine.
—Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
Although not one of the canonical RNA bases, inosine is read by the cell’s protein-translation machinery as the familiar guanosine.
—Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
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inosine
noun
ino·sine
ˈin-ə-ˌsēn
ˈī-nə-
ˈī-nə-
-sən
: a crystalline nucleoside C10H12N4O5 that is composed of hypoxanthine and ribose, that in the form of its monophosphate is a biosynthetic precursor of both AMP and its guanosine analog, and that binds to adenine, cytosine, or uracil especially in some transfer RNAs
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