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Purine

One of the two classes of heterocyclic organic bases that are found in nucleic acids (principally adenine and guanine) and in several other kinds of biological compounds, e.g. coenzymes, nucleotides, sugar derivatives; also includes methylated purine alkaloids such as caffeine and theobromine.

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