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Nucleosides

A nucleoside is composed of purine or pyrimidine base and a pentose sugar.

Nucleosides

 

A nucleoside is composed of purine or pyrimidine base and a pentose sugar. In the case of purine nucleoside, the sugar is attached to N-9 of the purine ring, whereas in pyrimidine nucleoside, the sugar is attached to the N-1 of the pyrimidine ring. This type of linkage is N-glycosidic linkage(Fig. 7.4).




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