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DURING the isolation of the deoxyribosides of guanine, hypoxanthine, thymine and cytosine from an enzymatic hydrolysate of a commercial preparation of herring sperm deoxyribonucleic acid (Isaac Spencer and Co., Ltd., Aberdeen), a fifth compound was obtained and identified as uracil deoxyriboside.
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DEKKER, C., TODD, A. Uracil Deoxyriboside. Nature 166, 557–558 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166557b0
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