Examples of adenosine triphosphate in the following topics:
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- Oxygen is used in mitochondria to help generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP) during oxidative phosphorylation.
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- As phosphate, it is a component of DNA, RNA, ATP (adenosine triphosphate), and the phospholipids that form all cell membranes.
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- Living cells also use phosphate to transport cellular energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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- The corresponding N-glycosides of the common sugar ribose are the building blocks of RNA, and are named adenosine, cytidine, guanosine and uridine (a thymidine analog missing the methyl group).
- Anhydride-like di- and tri-phosphate nucleotides have been identified as important energy carriers in biochemical reactions, the most common being ATP (adenosine 5'-triphosphate).
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- The chief biological phosphorylation reagents are phosphate derivatives of adenosine (a ribose compound).
- The strongest of these is the triphosphate ATP, with the diphosphate and monophosphate being less powerful.
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- Once they had identified the favored base tautomers in the nucleosides, Watson and Crick were able to propose a complementary pairing, via hydrogen bonding, of guanosine (G) with cytidine (C) and adenosine (A) with thymidine (T).
- DNA Polymerase: This family of enzymes link together nucleotide triphosphate monomers as they hydrogen bond to complementary bases.
- Di- and triphosphate esters have anhydride-like structures and are consequently reactive phosphorylating reagents, just as carboxylic anhydrides are acylating reagents.
- Since the pyrophosphate anion is a better leaving group than phosphate, triphosphates are more powerful phosphorylating agents than are diphosphates.
- Since triphosphates are very reactive, the lifetime of such derivatives in an aqueous environment is relatively short.
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- RNA synthesis is then initiated in the 3' direction, as nucleotide triphosphates bind to complementary bases on the template strand, and are joined by phosphate diester linkages.