Deoxycytidine diphosphate is a nucleoside diphosphate. It is related to the common nucleic acid CTP, or cytidine triphosphate, with the -OH (hydroxyl) group on the 2' carbon on the nucleotide's pentose removed (hence the deoxy- part of the name), and with one fewer phosphoryl group than CTP .
2'-Deoxycytidine diphosphate is abbreviated as dCDP.
Synthesis of cytidine nucleotides
Deoxycytidine diphosphate is synthesized through the oxidation-reduction reaction of cytidine 5'-diphosphocholine which is catalyzed by the presence of ribonucleoside-diphosphate reductase.2 Additionally, ribonucleoside-diphosphate reductase is capable of binding and catalyzing both the formation of deoxyribonucleotides from ribonucleotide.3
See also
Further reading
- Kennedy, Eugene P.; Louise Fencil Borkenhagen; Sylvia Wagner Smith (1959). "Possible Metabolic Functions of Deoxycytidine Diphosphate Choline and Deoxycytidine Diphosphate Ethanolamine". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 234 (8): 1998–2000. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)69855-2. PMID 13673002.
- Reichard, Peter (1962). "Enzymatic Synthesis of Deoxyribonucleotides: I. FORMATION OF DEOXYCYTIDINE DIPHOSPHATE FROM CYTIDINE DIPHOSPHATE WITH ENZYMES FROM ESCHERICHIA COLI". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 237: 3513–3519. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(19)70849-7. PMID 13973714..
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