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Uridine diphosphate

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Uridine diphosphate
Chemical name Uridine 5'-(trihydrogen diphosphate)
Chemical formula C9H14N2O12P2
Molecular mass 404.16 g/mol
CAS number 58-98-0
SMILES O[C@HΣ[C@H]([C@H](N(C
(N2)=O)C=CC2=O)O[C@@H]
1COP(O)(OP(O)(O)=O)=O)O
Chemical structure of deprotonated UDP

Uridine diphosphate, abbreviated UDP, is a nucleotide. It is an ester of pyrophosphoric acid with the nucleoside uridine. UDP consists of the pyrophosphate group, the pentose sugar ribose, and the nucleobase uracil.

See also

Nucleic acids [http://encycl.opentopia.com/ edit]
Nucleobases: Adenine | Thymine | Uracil | Guanine | Cytosine | Purine | Pyrimidine
Nucleosides: Adenosine | Uridine | Guanosine | Cytidine | Deoxyadenosine | Thymidine | Deoxyguanosine | Deoxycytidine
Nucleotides: AMP | UMP | GMP | CMP | ADP | UDP | GDP | CDP | ATP | UTP | GTP | CTP | cAMP | cGMP
Deoxynucleotides: dAMP | dTMP | dGMP | dCMP | dADP | dTDP | dGDP | dCDP | dATP | dTTP | dGTP | dCTP
Nucleic acids: DNA | mtDNA | cDNA | GNA | RNA | mRNA | tRNA | rRNA | ncRNA | sgRNA | shRNA | siRNA | snRNA | miRNA | snoRNA | LNA | PNA | TNA | Oligonucleotide

 


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