Non-canonical base pairs are planar hydrogen-bonded of nucleobases, having hydrogen bonding patterns which differ from the observed in Watson-Crick pairs, as classic double-helical DNA. The structures polynucleotide strands both DNA and RNA molecules can be understood terms sugar-phosphate backbones consisting phosphodiester-linked D 2’ deoxyribofuranose (D ribofuranose RNA) sugar moieties, wit...

Escherichia coli exhibits chemotactic responses to sugars, amino acids, and dipeptides, and the responses are mediated by methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins (MCPs). Using capillary assays, we demonstrated that Escherichia coli RP437 is attracted to the pyrimidines thymine and uracil and the response was constitutively expressed under all tested growth conditions. All MCP mutants lacking the M...

Ultraviolet light-induced free radical alkylation with 2-propanol or D-ribose, initiated with di-tert-butyl peroxide, of poly (G), poly (U20G), and poly(A) led to the substitution of the appropriate group for the H-8 atom of the purines and addition across the 5,6-double bond of the pyrimidines. The alkylated polynucleotides were subjected to nucleolytic digestion with several nucleases. T1-RNa...

2,2'-Disubstitutedamino-4-4'-bis-pyrimidines (3a-m) have been prepared by linking 2,4-dichloro-6-methyl-5-nitropyrimidine (1) with several diamines and subsequent reaction with suitable amines. Some of these compounds (3c and 3j) which were reduced catalitically, on treatment with nitrous acid, urea in pyridine, and boiling thionyl chloride gave the corresponding bistriazolopyrimidin (6), ...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines and pyrimidines are important organic fluorophores which have been investigated as biomarkers and photochemical sensors. The effect on the luminescent property by substituents in the heterocycle and phenyl rings, have been studied as well. In this investigation, series of 3-hydroxymethyl imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines and pyrimidines were synthesized an...

A variety of purine and azapurine analogues have been shown to serve as substrates for and inhibitors of xanthine oxidase. Thus, in addition to its usual substrates, hypoxanthine and xanthine, and its demonstrated activity on certain pterines (I), pyrimidines (2)) and aldehydes (3), the following purine analogues are oxidized by xanthine oxidase: adenine (4), 2-azaadenine (5), 6-mercaptopurine ...