Spermine
"Spermine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A biogenic polyamine formed from spermidine. It is found in a wide variety of organisms and tissues and is an essential growth factor in some bacteria. It is found as a polycation at all pH values. Spermine is associated with nucleic acids, particularly in viruses, and is thought to stabilize the helical structure.
| Descriptor ID |
D013096
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.092.211.415.701.801.821 D02.092.782.802
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