The sugar-phosphate backbone forms the structural framework of nucleic acids, including DNA and RNA. This backbone is composed of alternating sugar and phosphate groups, and defines directionality ...

Certain RNA molecules in the nerve cells in the brain last a life time without being renewed. Neuroscientists from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now demonstrated ...

Sialic acids are a family of alpha-keto acid sugars with a nine-carbon backbone, functioning as terminal ... unknown function and a small noncoding RNA. They discovered that this five-gene island ...

The remaining positions are occupied by carbon atoms, forming the backbone of important nucleobases in DNA and RNA. (Image: Public Domain) Types of Pyrimidines in Nucleic Acids There are three types ...

RNA antibodies would certainly be welcome tools ... One is that they're flexible; the second is that [because] the backbone is charged and there are just four bases, you have a situation where ...