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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A polymeric compound, usually DNA or RNA, consisting of a number of nucleotides.
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- noun biochemistry A
polymeric macromolecule composed of manynucleotides ; examples includeDNA andRNA
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Examples
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In the current study, UCLA scientists show a new role for a protein called polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPASE) in regulating the import of RNA into mitochondria.
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John J. Kasianowicz et al., “Characterization of individual polynucleotide molecules using a membrane channel,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93 1996, 13770–13773.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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University, who worked at that time on translocation of proteins across the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane, a process that involves cleavage of the leader peptide by signal peptidase, to Jeffrey Roberts in Cornell University who worked on E. coli RecA protein-directed cleavage of phage l repressor and its requirement for polynucleotide, and to Harvey Lodish at the M.I.T. who worked, among other subjects, on processing of viral polyproteins.
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“A general function of noncoding polynucleotide sequences”, Molecular Biology Reports.
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But years of careful effort to find an enzyme-free polynucleotide system able to undergo replication cycles by sequentially and correctly adding the proper nucleotide to the newly synthesized strand have not yet succeeded 5,6.
Good Math, Bad Math, and David Berlinkski - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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“A polynucleotide system based on a ribozyme polymerase able sequentially to add the correct nucleotides and thus copy itself might work.”
Good Math, Bad Math, and David Berlinkski - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Watson and Crick found that certain evidence ex cluded the possibility that the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule are paranemically coiled, that is, are so coiled that they can simply slip into and out of each other.
GENETIC CONTINUITY BENTLEY GLASS 1968
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For example, a polynucleotide, which I shall call poly (U, C), having about equal amounts of uracil and cytosine in
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Moreover there is preliminary evidence9 which suggests that secondary structure within a polynucleotide inhibits the power to stimulate protein synthesis.
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From such work it appears that, with minor reservations, each polynucleotide incorporates a characteristic set of amino acids.
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