guanine

guanine

English

Alternative forms

• guanin (dated)

Etymology

guano +‎ -ine. Guanine was named by the German chemist Julius Bodo Unger in 1846 who isolated it from guano.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɑː.niːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːniːn

Noun

guanine (plural guanines)

1. (chemistry) A substance first obtained from guano; it is a nucleic base and pairs with cytosine in DNA and RNA (by means of three hydrogen bonds).

   Hypernyms: nucleobase, purine

   Coordinate terms: adenine, cytosine, thymine, uracil

   • 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 164:

     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.

Derived terms

• alkylguanine
• azaguanine
• benzylguanine
• deoxyguanine
• methylguanine
• oligoguanine
• oxoguanine
• pentaguanine
• polyguanine
• thioguanine

Related terms

• guanosine
• guanylate
• guanylic acid

 

Translations

substance obtained from guano

Chinese: Mandarin: 鳥嘌呤／鸟嘌呤 (zh) (niǎopiàolìng, niǎopiāolìng) Czech: guanin m Esperanto: guanino Finnish: guaniini (fi) French: guanine (fr) f German: Guanin (de) n Hungarian: guanin Icelandic: gúanín n Italian: guanina (it) f Japanese: グアニン (ja) (guanin) Kazakh: гуанин (guanin) Kyrgyz: гуанин (guanin) Polish: guanina (pl) f Russian: гуани́н (ru) m (guanín) Spanish: guanina f Turkish: guanin (tr)

See also

• inosine (a nucleobase susbstitute for guanine)

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Guanine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “guanine”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.

Anagrams

• Guinean, anguine

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

guanine f (plural guanines)

1. guanine

Further reading

• “guanine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.