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thymine en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈθaɪmiːn/
• (UK) audio

Etymology

From thymus + -ine. Thymine was first isolated in 1893 by Albrecht Kossel and Albert Neumann from calves' thymus glands, hence its name.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione; it pairs with adenine in DNA.
   • In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ]. 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
   • Then he found them, the substances that made up the four-letter alphabet in whose language all life is written — adenine and cytosine, guanine and thymine. 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 164:

Forms

Coordinates

adenine · guanine · cytosine

Deriveds

polythymine · deoxythymine · thymineless · homothymine

Relateds

thymidylate · mul:Thy · mul:T · thymidylic acid · thymidine

Translations (17)

tr timin (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · ky тимин (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · ja チミン (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · kk тимин (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · pl tymina (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · pt timina (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · fi tymiini (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · is týmín (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · cs thymin (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · fr thymine (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · eo timino (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · it timina (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · bg тими́н (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · ru тими́н (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · de Thymin (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · cmn 胸腺嘧啶 (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione) · hu timin (organic chemistry, genetics: heterocyclic base, 5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione)

wikipedia: Albert Neumann · wikipedia: Albrecht Kossel · wikidata: Q171973