adenine arabinoside
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adenine arabinoside
other names: vidarabine, ara-A; 9-β-d-arabinofuranosyladenine; an antibiotic produced by Streptomyces bacteria that acts as an antiviral agent, causing mispairing of purines and pyrimidines in nucleic-acid synthesis.
| adenine, adduct, adducin | |
| adenine phosphoribosyltransferase, adeno+, adenohypophysis |
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