sugar nucleotide

sugar nucleotide
sugar nucleotide,
Biochemistry. any one of a group of sugars which are bound to the phosphate group of nucleotides, are intermediates in the conversion of one sugar to another, and serve as a source of sugar units in forming polysaccharides: »

Research all over the world…has produced more than 100 different sugar nucleotides—essential components in biochemical reactions (Science Journal).


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  • Nucleotide sugars metabolism — The nucleotide sugar UDP galactose. In nucleotide sugar metabolism a group of biochemicals known as nucleotide sugars act as donors for sugar residues in the glycosylation reactions that produce polysaccharides.[1] They are substrates …   Wikipedia

  • Nucleotide — Nucleotides are molecules that, when joined together, make up the structural units of RNA and DNA. In addition, nucleotides participate in cellular signaling (cGMP and cAMP), and are incorporated into important cofactors of enzymatic reactions… …   Wikipedia

  • Nucleotide — A subunit of DNA or RNA. To form a DNA or RNA molecule, thousands of nucleotides are joined in a long chain. Each nucleotide is divided into three parts (with apologies to Caesar): {{}}A nitrogenous base (A, G, T, or C in DNA; A, G, U, or C in… …   Medical dictionary

  • nucleotide — /nooh klee euh tuyd , nyooh /, n. Biochem. any of a group of molecules that, when linked together, form the building blocks of DNA or RNA: composed of a phosphate group, the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, and a pentose sugar, in… …   Universalium

  • nucleotide — A nucleoside with one or more phosphate groups linked at the 3 or 5 hydroxyl of a pentose sugar. When the sugar is ribose, the nucleotide is a ribonucleotide; when it is 2 deoxyribose, the nucleotide is a deoxyribonucleotide. RNA and DNA are… …   Glossary of Biotechnology

  • nucleotide — noun the monomer comprising DNA or RNA biopolymer molecules. Each nucleotide consists of a nitrogenous heterocyclic base (or nucleobase), which can be either a double ringed purine or a single ringed pyrimidine; a five carbon pentose …   Wiktionary

  • nucleotide — noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, irregular from nucle + ide Date: 1908 any of several compounds that consist of a ribose or deoxyribose sugar joined to a purine or pyrimidine base and to a phosphate group and that are the… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • nucleotide — Phosphate esters of nucleosides. The metabolic precursors of nucleic acids are monoesters with phosphate on carbon 5 of the pentose (known as 5 to distinguish sugar from base numbering). However many other structures, such as adenosine 3 5 cyclic …   Dictionary of molecular biology

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