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  • adjective chemistry Describing any compound formally derived from another by replacement of a hydroxy group by a hydrogen atom

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Examples

  • Both the new and classical enzymatic reactions complete a key step in producing the DNA building block by adding a methyl group -- one carbon atom attached to three hydrogen atoms -- to the building block's precursor molecule called deoxy-uridine monophosphate, or dUMP.

    Kansas City infoZine Headlines 2009

  • Both the new and classical enzymatic reactions complete a key step in producing the DNA building block by adding a methyl group -- one carbon atom attached to three hydrogen atoms -- to the building block's precursor molecule called deoxy-uridine monophosphate, or dUMP.

    innovations-report 2009

  • Both the new and classical enzymatic reactions complete a key step in producing the DNA building block by adding a methyl group -- one carbon atom attached to three hydrogen atoms -- to the building block's precursor molecule called deoxy-uridine monophosphate, or dUMP.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2009

  • Prior to the team's discovery, it was thought that thymidylate synthase, or TS, was the primary enzyme catalyzing a reaction that produced one of the four DNA building blocks called deoxy-thymidine monophosphate.

    Kansas City infoZine Headlines 2009

  • Both the new and classical enzymatic reactions complete a key step in producing the DNA building block by adding a methyl group -- one carbon atom attached to three hydrogen atoms -- to the building block's precursor molecule called deoxy-uridine monophosphate, or dUMP.

    Kansas City infoZine Headlines 2009

  • Prior to the team's discovery, it was thought that thymidylate synthase, or TS, was the primary enzyme catalyzing a reaction that produced one of the four DNA building blocks called deoxy-thymidine monophosphate.

    unknown title 2009

  • Prior to the team's discovery, it was thought that thymidylate synthase, or TS, was the primary enzyme catalyzing a reaction that produced one of the four DNA building blocks called deoxy-thymidine monophosphate.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2009

  • Both the new and classical enzymatic reactions complete a key step in producing the DNA building block by adding a methyl group -- one carbon atom attached to three hydrogen atoms -- to the building block's precursor molecule called deoxy-uridine monophosphate, or dUMP.

    unknown title 2009

  • Prior to the team's discovery, it was thought that thymidylate synthase, or TS, was the primary enzyme catalyzing a reaction that produced one of the four DNA building blocks called deoxy-thymidine monophosphate.

    Kansas City infoZine Headlines 2009

  • For PET imaging, the main radiopharmaceutical is Fluoro-deoxy glucose (FDG) incorporating F-18, with a half-life of just under two hours, as a tracer.

    Radioisotopes in medicine 2009

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