These nucleotides can then be further processed to form the pyrimidine bases found in DNA and RNA. The pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway is tightly regulated to ensure the proper balance of nucleotides ...

A new study conducted by researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences  has uncovered a key mechanism involving Intermolecular Coulombic Decay in aqueous ...

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The purine structure consists of a pyrimidine ring (positions 1 to 6) fused to an imidazole ring (positions 7 to 9). Adenine and guanine, the two most common purines in DNA and RNA, share this core ...

Pyrimidine, a fundamental structural unit of DNA bases, was selected to simulate DNA in the tissue environment and to investigate its decay mechanism after heavy-ion irradiation. The experiments ...