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Uridine monophosphate

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Uridine monophosphate
Chemical name 5'-Uridylic acid
Chemical formula C9H13N2O9P
Molecular mass 324.18 g/mol
CAS number 58-97-9
SMILES O[C@HΣ[C@H]([C@H]
(N(C(N2)=O)C=CC2=O)O
[C@@HΣCOP(O)(O)=O)O
Chemical structure of deprotonated UMP
Uridine monophosphate, also known as 5'-uridylic acid and abbreviated UMP, is a nucleotide that is found in RNA. It is an ester of phosphoric acid with the nucleoside uridine. UMP consists of the phosphate 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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