Biochemistry 2280A Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cytidine Triphosphate, Nucleoside Triphosphate, Nucleotide
11 Feb 2017
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Dna genetic make up: providing instructions. Information that can be read to create a living organism: multiple functions. Essential for life to happen: transcription and translation of information in the dna, messenger transcribe gene. Gives you information you can use to make protein. Protein is made in ribosomes ribosomal rna: transport rna. Bringing amino acids to the growing protein strand: slicing. Take rna and you edit it change things around. 5 carbon sugar pentose ribose: basis of ribonucleic acids, can add base at anomeric carbon. Base + sugar = nucleoside ribonucleoside = base + ribose. There is a name for the base, and a name for the nucleoside. In the example below, the base is cytosine, the nucleoside is cytidine. N is on the same side as the highest numbered carbon. Have an n-glycosidic bond join something together via a nitrogen (compared to an o-glycosidic bond where you join something via an oxygen to a sugar)
