Uracil
From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.
| Uracil | |
|---|---|
| Chemical name | Pyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione |
| Chemical formula | C4H4N2O2 |
| Molecular mass | 112.09 g/mol |
| Melting point | 335 °C |
| CAS number | 66-22-8 |
| SMILES | O=C(N1)NC=CC1=O |
Uracil is one of the four RNA nucleobases, replacing thymine as found in DNA. Just like thymine, uracil can form a base pair with adenine via two hydrogen bonds, but it lacks the methyl group present in thymine. Uracil, in comparison to thymine, will more readily degenerate into cytosine.
| Nucleic acids edit (http://www.biocrawler.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Nucleic_acids&action=edit) |
|---|
|
Nucleobases: Adenine - Thymine - Uracil - Guanine - Cytosine - Purine - Pyrimidine |
| Nucleosides: Adenosine - Thymidine - Uridine - Guanosine - Cytidine - Deoxyadenosine - Deoxythymidine - Deoxyuridine - Deoxyguanosine - Deoxycytidine - Ribose - Deoxyribose |
|
Nucleotides: AMP - TMP - UMP - GMP - CMP - ADP - TDP - UDP - GDP - CDP - ATP - TTP - UTP - GTP - CTP - cAMP - cGMP |
|
Deoxynucleotides: dAMP - dTMP - dUMP - dGMP - dCMP - dADP - dTDP - dUDP - dGDP - dCDP - dATP - dTTP - dUTP - dGTP - dCTP |
|
Nucleic acids: DNA - RNA - LNA - mRNA - ncRNA - miRNA - rRNA - shRNA - siRNA - tRNA - MtDNA - Oligonucleotide |
eo:Uracilo fr:Uracile it:Uracile he:אורציל nl:Uracil ja:ウラシル pl:Uracyl sv:Uracil tr:Urasil
