Tubercidin

Description

"An antibiotic purine ribonucleoside that readily substitutes for adenosine in the biological system, but its incorporation into DNA and RNA has an inhibitory effect on the metabolism of these nucleic acids." Drugbank

Tubercidin structure, image from PubChem

Alternative names

• 7-Deazaadenosine
• Sparsomycin A
• Tubercidine

Suppliers

• Sigma

References

• NCBI PubChem CID:6245
• Radomski et al., 1999

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