Tagged: Purines

November 2, 2022

Gout causes, Steps of purine biosynthesis, Purine metabolism importance and disorders

Purines are essential for the synthesis of nucleic acids, proteins, and other metabolites as well as for energy-requiring reactions, Purines are the main components of nucleotides in cell proliferation, so, impaired purine metabolism is...

Biology

August 17, 2020

Importance of Nucleosides, Nucleotides, Purines, Pyrimidines & Sugars of nucleic acids

Nucleotides are the building blocks of nucleic acids. A nucleic acid is a polynucleotide chain that can be hydrolyzed by the enzymes nucleases. Each nucleotide can be hydrolysed by the enzyme nucleotidase into a...

Biology

July 20, 2018

Structure of Nucleic Acid (DNA), Enzymes, DNA replication and DNA repair mechanism

DNA is made up of four nitrogenous bases which may be a derivative of Pyrimidines & Purines, pyrimidines are single ring as thymine (T) & cytosine (C), Purines are double rings as adenine (A)...