Nucleoside Definition

Nucleoside Sentence Examples

• Pharmacologic treatment for herpesvirus infections has targeted the virus-specific enzyme, thymidine kinase (TK ), with nucleoside analogs.

• This medicine contains the active ingredient emtricitabine, which is a type of medicine called a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor.

• Attached to the other side of the sugar is a phosphoric acid unit, linking the nucleoside to the neighboring sugar.

• However, the unsubstituted nucleosides could lightly yield the fragment ions of the nucleoside base and sugar ring.

• The phosphorylation of purine nucleosides to form nucleotides by nucleoside kinase is an alternative pathway of purine salvage.