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A PROBABLE explanation of the heterogeneous 32P-labelling of 5′-nucleotide units of ribonucleic acid of rat liver1 and deoxyribonucleic acid of thymine-requiring E. coli 2 after brief incubation with phosphate-32P is that the carbon-bound phosphate groups of postulated precursor 5′-nucleotides3 become labelled at unequal rates. Brumm, Potter and Siekevitz4 have studied the incorporation of phosphorus-32 into acid-soluble nucleotides of rat liver, but the isolated guanylic and uridylic acids were noted to contain impurities. Because there is little direct in vivo evidence that 5′-nucleotides actually are the building blocks in biosynthesis of nucleic acids in mammalian tissues, we have re-investigated the status of labelling after a short time of incubation, when unequal synthetic rates should be most easily observable.
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PRICE, T., TSUBOI, K., HINDS, H. et al. Heterogeneous Labelling of Acid-soluble Nucleoside 5′-Monophosphates during Short in vivo Incubation with Phosphate-32P. Nature 186, 158–160 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186158b0
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