CHEBI:17748 - thymidine

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ChEBI Name thymidine
ChEBI ID CHEBI:17748
Definition A pyrimidine 2'-deoxyribonucleoside having thymine as the nucleobase.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Secondary ChEBI IDs CHEBI:19273, CHEBI:45834, CHEBI:45917, CHEBI:45918, CHEBI:45782, CHEBI:9579, CHEBI:15244
Supplier Information ChemicalBook:CB6134417, eMolecules:532057, eMolecules:28206777, ZINC000000025672
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Thymidine (symbol dT or dThd), also known as deoxythymidine, deoxyribosylthymine, or thymine deoxyriboside, is a pyrimidine deoxynucleoside. Deoxythymidine is the DNA nucleoside T, which pairs with deoxyadenosine (A) in double-stranded DNA. In cell biology it is used to synchronize the cells in G1/early S phase. The prefix deoxy- is often left out since there are no precursors of thymine nucleotides involved in RNA synthesis. Before the boom in thymidine use caused by the need for thymidine in the production of the antiretroviral drug azidothymidine (AZT), much of the world's thymidine production came from herring sperm. Thymidine occurs almost exclusively in DNA but it also occurs in the T-loop of tRNA.
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Formula C10H14N2O5
Net Charge 0
Average Mass 242.22860
Monoisotopic Mass 242.09027
InChI InChI=1S/C10H14N2O5/c1-5-3-12(10(16)11-9(5)15)8-2-6(14)7(4-13)17-8/h3,6-8,13-14H,2,4H2,1H3,(H,11,15,16)/t6-,7+,8+/m0/s1
InChIKey IQFYYKKMVGJFEH-XLPZGREQSA-N
SMILES Cc1cn([C@H]2C[C@H](O)[C@@H](CO)O2)c(=O)[nH]c1=O
Metabolite of Species Details
Mus musculus (NCBI:txid10090) Source: BioModels - MODEL1507180067 See: PubMed
Escherichia coli (NCBI:txid562) See: PubMed
Homo sapiens (NCBI:txid9606) See: DOI
Roles Classification
Biological Role(s): Escherichia coli metabolite
Any bacterial metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in Escherichia coli.
human metabolite
Any mammalian metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in humans (Homo sapiens).
metabolite
Any intermediate or product resulting from metabolism. The term 'metabolite' subsumes the classes commonly known as primary and secondary metabolites.
mouse metabolite
Any mammalian metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in a mouse (Mus musculus).
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Outgoing thymidine (CHEBI:17748) has functional parent thymine (CHEBI:17821)
thymidine (CHEBI:17748) has role Escherichia coli metabolite (CHEBI:76971)
thymidine (CHEBI:17748) has role human metabolite (CHEBI:77746)
thymidine (CHEBI:17748) has role metabolite (CHEBI:25212)
thymidine (CHEBI:17748) has role mouse metabolite (CHEBI:75771)
thymidine (CHEBI:17748) is a pyrimidine 2'-deoxyribonucleoside (CHEBI:19255)
thymidine (CHEBI:17748) is enantiomer of telbivudine (CHEBI:63624)
Incoming α-tritiated thymidine (CHEBI:53527) has functional parent thymidine (CHEBI:17748)
5'-O-{[3-(benzoyloxy)-3-oxopropyl]carbamoyl}thymidine (CHEBI:71524) has functional parent thymidine (CHEBI:17748)
5,6-dihydrothymidine (CHEBI:132171) has functional parent thymidine (CHEBI:17748)
polyoxin (CHEBI:26194) has functional parent thymidine (CHEBI:17748)
thymidine phosphate (CHEBI:27001) has functional parent thymidine (CHEBI:17748)
tritiated thymidine (CHEBI:53526) has functional parent thymidine (CHEBI:17748)
telbivudine (CHEBI:63624) is enantiomer of thymidine (CHEBI:17748)
IUPAC Name
thymidine
Synonyms Sources
1-(2-deoxy-β-D-erythro-pentofuranosyl)-5-methylpyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione ChEBI
2'-deoxy-5-methyluridine ChemIDplus
2'-deoxythymidine ChemIDplus
2'-thymidine ChEBI
5-methyl-2'-deoxyuridine ChemIDplus
Deoxythymidine KEGG COMPOUND
dThd CBN
T ChEBI
Thymidine KEGG COMPOUND
THYMIDINE PDBeChem
thymidine UniProt
thymine 2'-deoxyriboside ChEBI
Manual Xrefs Databases
C00019698 KNApSAcK
C00214 KEGG COMPOUND
DB04485 DrugBank
HMDB0000273 HMDB
THM PDBeChem
Thymidine Wikipedia
THYMIDINE MetaCyc
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Registry Numbers Types Sources
282610 Gmelin Registry Number Gmelin
50-89-5 CAS Registry Number KEGG COMPOUND
50-89-5 CAS Registry Number ChemIDplus
89285 Reaxys Registry Number Reaxys
Citations
Roux A, Xu Y, Heilier JF, Olivier MF, Ezan E, Tabet JC, Junot C (2012)
Annotation of the human adult urinary metabolome and metabolite identification using ultra high performance liquid chromatography coupled to a linear quadrupole ion trap-Orbitrap mass spectrometer.
Analytical chemistry 84, 6429-6437 [PubMed:22770225]
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Munns TW, Freeman SK (1989)
Antibody-nucleic acid complexes. Oligo(dG)n and -(dT)n specificities associated with anti-DNA antibodies from autoimmune MRL mice.
Biochemistry 28, 10048-10054 [PubMed:2559771]
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23 January 2025