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inosine

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-003445

A purine nucleoside that has hypoxanthine linked by the N9 nitrogen to the C1 carbon of ribose. It is an intermediate in the degradation of purines and purine nucleosides to uric acid and in pathways of purine salvage. It also occurs in the anticodon of certain transfer RNA molecules.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-003445
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesMedical Subject Headings 2018; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsoribonucleosides; hypoxanthine
TranslationsSpanish: inosina
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-003445",
  "term": "inosine",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "A purine nucleoside that has hypoxanthine linked by the N9 nitrogen to the C1 carbon of ribose. It is an intermediate in the degradation of purines and purine nucleosides to uric acid and in pathways of purine salvage. It also occurs in the anticodon of certain transfer RNA molecules.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "ribonucleosides",
    "hypoxanthine"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Medical Subject Headings 2018",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "inosina"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/inosine/"
}

Record 3,445 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.