BIO206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Phosphodiester Bond, Pentose, Nucleoside

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Dna - important themes: complementarity, polarity (directionality, fidelity: copied with high degree of accuracy, stability: stable in wide array of physiological conditions; relatively inert. Pentose sugar (5 c) + nitrogenous base + phosphate: 2 types of 5-carbon sugars : either ribose or deoxyribose, 5 different nitrogen-containing bases (a,c,g,t/u); evolution favoured these, phosphate group. N-glycosidic bond between nitrogenous base and pentose sugar. For purines, n-glycosidic bond occurs at carbon 1 of the pentose sugar and nitrogen 9 of the purine. For pyrimidines, it occurs at carbon one and nitrogen one. Nucleotides are nucleosides with a phosphate group attached. Nucleotides may contain one, two, or even three phosphate groups linked in a chain. First phosphate group is an alpha phosphate, then beta phosphate and then gamma phosphate. Phosphate group always attached to the 5" carbon. Naming involves nucleoside root of the name and then how many phosphates attached. 1909: levene; dna contains equal proportions of deoxyribose, nitrogenous bases, phosphates.

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