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cytosine

English

Etymology

After German Cytosin, equivalent to Ancient Greek ????? (kĂștos) + -ine. Cytosine was discovered and named by the German biochemists Albrecht Kossel and Albert Neumann in 1894 when it was hydrolyzed from calf thymus tissues.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?sa?t?si?n/

Noun

cytosine (plural cytosines)

  1. (biochemistry) A heterocyclic base, 4-aminopyrimidin-2(1H)-one, which pairs with guanine in DNA and RNA (by means of three hydrogen bonds).

Hypernyms

  • nucleobase
  • pyrimidine

Derived terms

  • cytosine arabinoside
  • deoxycytosine

Related terms

  • cytidine
  • cytidylate
  • cytidylic acid

Translations

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hypomethylation

English

Etymology

hypo- +? methylation

Noun

hypomethylation (plural hypomethylations)

  1. (genetics) a decrease in the epigenetic methylation of cytosine and adenosine residues in DNA

Antonyms

  • hypermethylation

Related terms

  • hypomethylated

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