TWiV 860: Evading a Toll on the road to RNA vaccines
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A Brief Introduction to Chemistry
Pseudo uridine is the most interesting to me, because we've talked about this before. That's simply uridine, where some enzime called pseudo uridiles comes along and rotates it a hundred and 80 degrees out of around a um sort of one axis. And the interesting thing is that this preserves the base paring capacity - there's two double bonded oxygens and an amino aad ring nitrogen are in the same place. But it otherwise modifies its appearance and recognition by other enzines.
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