"Pyrimidine Dimers" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Dimers found in DNA chains damaged by ULTRAVIOLET RAYS. They consist of two adjacent PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDES, usually THYMINE nucleotides, in which the pyrimidine residues are covalently joined by a cyclobutane ring. These dimers block DNA REPLICATION.
| Descriptor ID |
D011740
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.742.686.600 D13.695.578.424.600 D13.695.740.600
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| Concept/Terms |
Pyrimidine Dimers- Pyrimidine Dimers
- Dimers, Pyrimidine
- Cyclobutane-Pyrimidine Dimers
- Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimers
- Dimers, Cyclobutane-Pyrimidine
Thymine-Cyclobutane Dimer- Thymine-Cyclobutane Dimer
- Dimer, Thymine-Cyclobutane
- Thymine Cyclobutane Dimer
- Thymine-Thymine Cyclobutane Dimer
- Cyclobutane Dimer, Thymine-Thymine
- Dimer, Thymine-Thymine Cyclobutane
- Thymine Thymine Cyclobutane Dimer
- Thymine Dimers
- Dimers, Thymine
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