# depurination

> The disruption of the bond between the sugar in the backbone and the A or G base, causing the base to be removed and leaving a depurinated sugar.

**Wikidata**: [Q903582](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q903582)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depurination)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/depurination


## References

1. Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
3. WikiUMLS: Aligning UMLS to Wikipedia via Cross-lingual Neural Ranking
4. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)