pentaribonucleotide

English

Etymology

penta- +‎ ribonucleotide

Noun

pentaribonucleotide (plural pentaribonucleotides)

1. An oligoribonucleotide containing five nucleotide units
   • 2015, Erin Noble et al., “Coordinated DNA Replication by the Bacteriophage T4 Replisome”, in Viruses‎^[1], volume 7, →DOI:

     This complex unwinds duplex DNA while synthesizing pentaribonucleotide RNA primers for use by the lagging strand polymerase (gp43).

Further reading

• pentaribonucleotide on Wikidata.Wikidata