1956 Nature 11 Feb. 271/1 Some 10–20 per cent of the total polyribonucleotide content of the bacteria was extracted by this procedure.
1959 Times 10 Nov. (Guinness Suppl. ) p. ii/6An important series of papers on the synthesis of polyribonucleotides which have an important function in cellular metabolism.
1961 Steiner & Beers Polynucleotides i. 6The equimolar complexes formed by polyriboadenylic acid with polyribouridylic acid and with polyriboinosinic acid appear to have doubly stranded helical structures.
Ibid. viii. 263Even less is known of the detailed fine structure of polyribocytidylic acid... All that can be said is that some helical structure is present.
1964 G. H. Haggis et al.Introd. MolecularBiol. ix. 228 (caption)T = polyribothymidylic acid (a polyribonucleotide containing only the base thymine found in natural DNA but not in natural RNA).
1970 New Scientist 15 Jan. 96/2 Poly I:C—a combination of polyriboinosinic and polyribocytidylic acids—would stimulate interferon production both in cell cultures and in animals.
1976 Nature 15 Jan. 141/2 Antibodies to native DNA, double-stranded RNA, and various synthetic polyribonucleotides occur with great frequency in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
1956 Federation Proc. XV. 291/2To define the chemical events in the development of a bacterial virus, we have explored the pathways of polydesoxyribonucleotide synthesis in normal and infected cells.
1961 Steiner & Beers Polynucleotides i. 5The primary structures of polydeoxyribonucleotides and polyribonucleotides are identical except for the absence of the hydroxyl group on C2′ of deoxyribose.
1976 W. Guschlbauer Nucleic AcidStruct. vi. 86Single-stranded polydeoxyribonucleotides are, as a rule, less stacked and structured than their ribo counterparts.
polyribo-
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- Forming the names of polyribonucleotides and derived words