Nucleotide

Definition: Nucleotide

Nucleotide

Noun

1. A phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA).

Date "nucleotide" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Crosswords: Nucleotide

English words defined with "nucleotide": adenosine monophosphate, adenosine triphosphate, adenylic acid, amp, ATP ♦ triphosphopyridine nucleotide. (references)

Specialty definitions using "nucleotide": 5'-Guanylic Acid ♦ adefovir, Adenine Nucleotide Translocase, Amidophosphoribosyltransferase, antisense drug, Arabinofuranosylcytosine Triphosphate ♦ Base Sequence, Bongkrekic Acid ♦ Calmodulin, Calmodulin-Binding Proteins, canonical sequence, Chromosome Walking, Consensus Sequence, contig map, contiguous map, Cyclic AMP, Cyclic IMP, Cytidine Monophosphate, Cytidine Triphosphate ♦ Deoxycytidine Monophosphate, Deoxyribonuclease I, dideoxy sequencing, Dinucleoside Phosphates, DNA Mutational Analysis, DNA Primase, DNA probe, DNA-Directed RNA Polymerase ♦ EIF-2B ♦ Frameshifting, Ribosomal ♦ Genes, Overlapping, GTP-Binding Protein Regulators, Guanine Nucleotide Dissociation Inhibitors, Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors, Guanine Nucleotide-Releasing Factor 2, Guanosine Pentaphosphate, Guanosine Tetraphosphate, Guanosine Triphosphate, Guanylyl Imidodiphosphate ♦ Inosine Diphosphate, Inosine Monophosphate, Inosine Triphosphate, Interspersed Repetitive Sequences ♦ Long Interspersed Nucleotide Elements ♦ molecular probe, Molecular Sequence Data, Monomeric GTP-Binding Proteins ♦ nucleic acid probe, Nucleotidases, Nucleotide Deaminases, Nucleotide Mapping, nucleotide sequence ♦ oligonucleotide ligation assay, Open Reading Frames, Orotate Phosphoribosyltransferase, Orotidine-5'-Phosphate Decarboxylase ♦ Poly T, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, porcine endogenous retrovirus C, Preveon, promotor, promotor site, Proteobacteria ♦ ral Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor, Ras Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors, Ras-GRF1, Reading frame, Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid, Response Elements, Retroelements, RNA Splice Sites, RNA, Guide ♦ Sanger method, Self-Sustained Sequence Replication, Sequence Homology, Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, Short Interspersed Nucleotide Elements, SIV, Son of Sevenless Protein, Drosophila, Son of Sevenless Proteins, SOS1 Protein, STLV, Structural Bodywork ♦ Terminal Repeat Sequences, Tetrahydrouridine, Thymidine Monophosphate ♦ Uridine Diphosphate, Uridine Monophosphate, Uridine Triphosphate. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Nucleotide

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A nucleotide is an organic molecule consisting of a nitrogenous heterocyclic base (a purine or a pyrimidine), a pentose sugar (deoxyribose in DNA or ribose in RNA), and a phosphate or polyphosphate group.

A nucleoside is similar, except that it contains only the sugar and base, without a phosphate.

Nucleotides are the monomers of nucleic acids and also play important roles in cellularular energy transport and transformations (notably ATP and NAD+/NADH) and in enzyme regulation (see for example, protein kinase).

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nucleotide."

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Commercial Usage: Nucleotide

Domain	Title
Books	Current Methodology (Advances in Cyclic Nucleotide and Protein Phosphorylation Research: Vol 10) (reference) Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases (Advances in Cyclic Nucleotide and Protein Phosphorylation Research: Vol 16) (reference) Third International Conference on Cyclic Nucleotides, New Orleans, Louisianna, U. S. A.: Proceedings (Advances in Cuclic Nucleotide and Protein Phosphtoylation:) (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Nucleotide

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Sequence divergence among SNV genes has been shown to be as high as 23% nucleotide dissimilarity and 7% amino acid dissimilarity. (references)
		These databases include nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, macromolecular structures, whole genomes, and MEDLINE through PubMed. (references)
		The ultimate goal of the Genome Project is to decode, letter by letter, the exact sequence of all 3 billion nucleotide bases that make up the human genome. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Nucleotide

"Nucleotide" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.03% of the time. "Nucleotide" is used about 152 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.03%	149	25,810
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	1.32%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	0.66%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	152	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Nucleotide

Expressions using "nucleotide": Adenine Nucleotide Translocase ♦ Guanine Nucleotide Dissociation Inhibitors ♦ Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors ♦ Long Interspersed Nucleotide Elements ♦ Nucleotide Deaminases ♦ Nucleotide Mapping ♦ nucleotide sequence ♦ ral Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor ♦ ras Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors ♦ Short Interspersed Nucleotide Elements ♦ triphosphopyridine nucleotide. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "nucleotide": nucleotide-binding, Nucleotide-Releasing.
	Ending with "nucleotide": guanine-nucleotide.
	Containing "nucleotide": Nicotinamide-Nucleotide Adenylyltransferase.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nucleotide

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
nucleotide	66
single nucleotide polymorphism	15
single nucleotide polymorphisms	6
dna nucleotide	4
dna four letter make nucleotide represent sequence single that up	4
dna four make nucleotide sequence that up	4
nucleotide structure	4
nucleotide sequencing	3
nucleotide sequence	3
nucleosides nucleotide	3
analogue nucleotide	3
nucleotide purine	3
biosol nucleotide technology	3
activity comparison nucleotide sequence srna	2
nucleic acid nucleotide and nucleosides	2
excision nucleotide repair	2
nucleotide part	2
blast nucleotide	2
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Modern Translations: Nucleotide

Language		Translations for "nucleotide"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		� �苷酸. (various references)

Danish		nukleotid, nucleotid. (various references)

Dutch		nucleotide. (various references)

Finnish		nukleotidi (nucleoside monophosphate). (various references)

French		nucléotide. (various references)

German		Nucleotid. (various references)

Greek		νουκλεοτίδιο. (various references)

Italian		nucleotide. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ヌード写真 (noon bright, nougat, nouveau, nouveau roman, nouvelle, nouvelles vagues, nude photo, null, tow linked fighting sticks). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ヌクレオチド . (various references)

Korean		뉴클� �오티�"�. (various references)

Pig Latin		ucleotidenay

Portuguese		nucleótido. (various references)

Spanish		nucleótido. (various references)

Swedish		nukleotid. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Nucleotide

Derivations
	Words beginning with "nucleotide": nucleotides. (additional references)
	Words ending with "nucleotide": deoxyribonucleotide, dinucleotide, internucleotide, mononucleotide, oligonucleotide, polynucleotide, polyribonucleotide, ribonucleotide, trinucleotide. (additional references)
	Words containing "nucleotide": deoxyribonucleotides, dinucleotides, mononucleotides, oligonucleotides, polynucleotides, polyribonucleotides, ribonucleotides, trinucleotides. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Nucleotide" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nucleoids, nuclestide, nucloeitde, nucoeotide. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Nucleotide"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "nucleotide" (pronounced nuw"klēutī'd)
3	-t ī' d	apartheid, peptide, yuletide.
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Anagrams: Nucleotide

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-n-o-t-u"
	-2 letters: deletion, denticle, duecento, eduction, election, entoiled, inductee, nucleoid, outlined, uncoiled, undocile.
	-3 letters: centile, cineole, clouted, codeine, conduit, counted, ctenoid, cutline, decline, deontic, detinue, diluent, ductile, eloined, elution, enticed, include, lection, lentoid, leucine, leucite, licente, linecut, linocut, noctuid, noctule, noticed, nuclide, outline, toluene, toluide, tunicle, unoiled.
	-4 letters: ceiled, cenote, cineol, citole, client, cloned, codein.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-n-o-t-u"
	+1 letter: nucleotides.
	+2 letters: dinucleotide, nucleotidase, reinoculated.
	+3 letters: countervailed, dinucleotides, nondeductible, nucleotidases, trinucleotide.
	+4 letters: conceptualised, conceptualized, contextualized, counterclaimed, counterrallied, mononucleotide, polynucleotide, rediscountable, ribonucleotide, trinucleotides.
	+5 letters: countermelodies, endonucleolytic, internucleotide, mononucleotides, oligonucleotide, polynucleotides, ribonucleotides.
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