polycytosine

polycytosine

English

Etymology

poly- +‎ cytosine

Noun

polycytosine (plural polycytosines)

1. A nucleotide containing cytosine as the only base
   • 2015 August 12, “Validation of Next-Generation Sequencing of Entire Mitochondrial Genomes and the Diversity of Mitochondrial DNA Mutations in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0135643:

     Length heteroplasmy occured^[sic] frequently within the polycytosine stretches of HVS-I (anywhere between positions 16188 and 16195) and HVS-II (around position 310) due to replication slippage when a specific minimum number of cytosine residues are present [8, 14 ].