nucleoside

See also: nucléoside

English

Etymology

Probably from nucleo- + (glyc)oside.

Noun

nucleoside (plural nucleosides)

1. (biochemistry) an organic molecule in which a nitrogenous heterocyclic base (or nucleobase), which can be either a double-ringed purine or a single-ringed pyrimidine, is covalently attached to a five-carbon pentose sugar (deoxyribose in DNA or ribose in RNA). When the phosphate group is covalently attached to the pentose sugar, it forms a nucleotide.

Hyponyms

• adenosine
• guanosine
• cytidine
• thymidine
• uridine

Meronyms

• nucleobase

Derived terms

• aminonucleoside
• anhydronucleoside
• antinucleoside
• azanucleoside
• C-nucleoside
• deoxynucleoside
• desoxynucleoside
• dideoxynucleoside
• dinucleoside
• ectonucleoside
• internucleoside
• iodonucleoside
• mononucleoside
• nonnucleoside
• nucleosidase
• nucleosidic
• oligonucleoside
• phosphonucleoside
• ribonucleoside
• thionucleoside

Translations

organic molecule

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 核苷 (zh) (hégān)

• Finnish: nukleosidi
• Italian: nucleoside (it) m
• Japanese: ヌクレオシド (nukureoshido)
• Khmer: ខាងស្នូល (khang snol)
• Turkish: nükleozit

See also

• DNA
• nucleobase
• nucleotide
• RNA

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu.kle.oˈzi.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: nu‧cle‧o‧sì‧de

Noun

nucleoside m (plural nucleosidi)

1. (biochemistry) nucleoside