Definition
cytidines
noun
- Plural of cytidine; nucleosides composed of the pyrimidine base cytosine linked to a ribose sugar, found in RNA and important in cellular metabolism.
Usage: biochemistry; molecular biology; technical term
Examples
- Cytidines are key components of RNA molecules in all living cells.
- The researcher isolated cytidines from the cell extract to study their role in protein synthesis.
- Cytidines can be phosphorylated to form nucleotides used in RNA synthesis.
- The concentration of cytidines in the sample was measured using chromatography.
- Modified cytidines are sometimes incorporated into RNA for therapeutic purposes.