Definition of "nucleotide" []

• Any of various compounds consisting of a nucleoside combined with a phosphate group and forming the basic constituent of DNA and RNA. (noun)

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• "Pharmasset's lead hepatitis C drug, PSI-7977, is known as a nucleotide polymerase inhibitor and is designed to combat hepatitis C infection inside liver cells."
• "Orchestrated gene regulation and expression networks across whole genomes facilitated by the jumping insertions * is* fairly new, and it offers a whole different level of evolution beyond fortuitous point mutations in nucleotide bases selected by the parameters of life and the luck of the Irish."
• "Knowing the end configuration of the proteins one would need to estimate the starting protein nucleotide configurations and assume the chance of a mutation was equally distributed throughout the proteins."