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Abstract
1. Osmium tetroxide in dilute ammonia oxidizes various pyrimidine nucleosides at different rates. Thymidine is oxidized about 45 times as fast as deoxycytidine. The phosphate groups may be eliminated from oxidized thymine nucleotides by successive treatments with alkali and then with diphenylamine in aqueous formic acid. The reactions can be applied to the selective degradation of thymidine in oligodeoxynucleotides.Entities:
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Year: 1966 PMID: 5938667 PMCID: PMC1264796 DOI: 10.1042/bj0980070
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem J ISSN: 0264-6021 Impact factor: 3.857