In addition to their role in nucleic acids, purines are involved in various cellular metabolic processes. Purine nucleotides, such as ATP and GTP, serve as energy carriers and regulators of cellular ...

It also revealed a way in which some compounds -- nucleic acids -- could replicate and keep ... one of DNA's four bases and also a key component of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), an energy-carrier ...

A nucleic acid is a long molecule made up of smaller molecules called nucleotides. Nucleic acids were discovered in 1868, when twenty-four-year-old Swiss physician Friedrich Miescher isolated a ...

Kossel was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1910 for his contributions to the understanding of nucleic acids ... such as the citric acid cycle and the electron transport ...