Polymer networks containing transient physical and permanent chemical cross-links exhibit unique mechanical properties due to the intrinsic reassociating ability of supramolecular functional groups. Similar gels, these allow controlled release stored energy can extend life polymer in practical applications. In this study, we investigated rheology, dielectric spectroscopy, stress–strain behavior...

In apurinic acid, a single-stranded polydeoxyribonucleotide easily obtained upon depurination of DNA, the proton resonances arising from thymine and cytosine are readily observable in aqueous solution of 25 degrees C. Two methyl thymine resonances, centered at 1.88 ppm and separated by 0.045 ppm, are observed. We attribute the downfield methyl resonance to thymines with no pyrimidine nearest ne...

Metabolites of vinyl chloride react with cytosine in DNA to form 3,N(4)-ethenocytosine. Recent studies suggest that ethenocytosine is repaired by the base excision repair pathway with the ethenobase being removed by thymine-DNA glycosylase. Here single turnover kinetics have been used to compare the excision of ethenocytosine by thymine-DNA glycosylase with the excision of thymine. The effect o...

We present the first investigation of excited state dynamics by resonant Auger–Meitner spectroscopy (also known as Auger spectroscopy) using nucleobase thymine an example.

A method for the synthesis of 1-(5-methyl-2-furoyl)thymine (7) and 1-(5-methyl-2-furyl)thymine (8) is described. Trimethylsilyliodide catalysed addition of 5-methyl-2,4-bis(trimethylsilyloxy)pyrimidine (9) to 2-methyl-2,5-dihydro-2,5-dimethoxyfuran yielded the new thymine derivative 13. Photooxidations of 7 and 8 gave not the expected addition products but furan endoperoxides and hydroperoxides...

The influence of ribo- and deoxyribonucleosides and ribo- and deoxyribonucleotides on the uptake of radiolabeled thymidine and thymine by Haemophilus influenzae during growth was investigated. A nucleoside-degrading enzyme similar to that reported in Escherichia coli was found to break down thymidine unless other nucleosides were present to divert its action. The presence of other nucleosides p...

The population and depopulation mechanisms leading to the lowest-lying triplet states of 2-Se-Thymine were studied at MS-CASPT2/cc-pVDZ level theory.

Pyrimidine hydrates are products of ultraviolet irradiation of DNA. We have already demonstrated the formation of both cis-thymine hydrate and trans-thymine hydrate (6-hydroxy-5,6-dihydrothymine) in irradiated poly(dA-dT):poly(dA-dT). These are released from DNA as free bases by bacterial or human glycosylases. Thymine hydrate stabilities were studied in irradiated DNA substrates using purified...

Doctor, V. M. (University of Texas, Houston). Microbiological assay for thymine using a mutant of Streptococcus faecalis. J. Bacteriol. 84:17-22. 1962.-A rapid microbiological assay procedure for the determination of thymine was devised. The test organism, Streptococcus faecalis Akt, a mutant of S. faecalis ATCC 8043, gives one-half the maximal growth response to 1.6 mug of thymine (assay range...