Talk:Hypoxanthine
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I was wondering with hypoxanthine as a base for DNA when nitrous acid has been removed, does this new base continue on for many generations or does the repair mechanisms of the DNA cancel it out so the DNA becomes 'normal' again.
- Apparently, an enzyme named adenase converts the hypoxanthine back to adenine. I'm trying to study for an AP bio test, and found no information in my textbook, so I headed to Wikipedia to get the information. --Luigifan (talk) 17:24, 13 January 2008 (UTC)]
IUPAC Name
The currently listed name 3,7-dihydropurin-6-one appears to refer to a
Please consult the image below to observe the tautomerism:
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In light of this discrepancy, I am changing the listed IUPAC name to 1H-purin-6(9H)-one such that it is analogous in hydrogenation to the listed isomers of guanine and adenine, i.e. as if they had nucleosidic glycosylation at position 9 replaced with a proton.. Eutactic (talk) 05:17, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
I endorse homogenising hypoxanthine with the representations of the other nucleobases