Cytidine diphosphate glucose
Encyclopedia
Cytidine diphosphate glucose, often abbreviated CDP-glucose, is a nucleotide-linked sugar consisting of cytidine diphospahte and glucose.
and glucose-1-phosphate
by the enzyme glucose-1-phosphate cytidylyltransferase
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Biosynthesis
CDP-glucose is produced from CTPCytidine triphosphate
Cytidine triphosphate is a pyrimidine nucleoside triphosphate.CTP is a substrate in the synthesis of RNA.CTP is a high-energy molecule equal to ATP, but its role in the organism is more specific than that of ATP....
and glucose-1-phosphate
Glucose-1-phosphate
Glucose 1-phosphate is a glucose molecule with a phosphate group on the 1'-carbon.-Catabolic:In glycogenolysis, it is the direct product of the reaction in which glycogen phosphorylase cleaves off a molecule of glucose from a greater glycogen structure.To be utilized in cellular catabolism it must...
by the enzyme glucose-1-phosphate cytidylyltransferase
Glucose-1-phosphate cytidylyltransferase
In enzymology, a glucose-1-phosphate cytidylyltransferase is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reactionThus, the two substrates of this enzyme are CTP and alpha-D-glucose 1-phosphate, whereas its two products are diphosphate and CDP-glucose....
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