Nucleotide Metabolism I

This course is part of a series taught by Kevin Ahern at Oregon State University on General Biochemistry. For more information about online courses go to http://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/

1. Nucleotides consist of a) sugar, b) nitrogenous base, and c) phosphate

2. Nucleosides consist of a a) sugar and b) nitrogenous base

3. The sugars of nucleosides and nucleotides are either ribose (found in ribonucleotides of RNA) or deoxyribose (found in deoxyribonucleotides of DNA).

4. Unless otherwise specified, the term "nucleotide" will be used in this class to indicate either ribonucleotides (contain ribose) or deoxyribonucleotides (contain deoxyribose).

5. Unless otherwise specified, the term "nucleoside" will be used in this class to indicate either ribonucleosides (contain ribose) or deoxyribonucleosides (contain deoxyribose).

6. The term nucleoside phosphate is equivalent to a nucleotide (nucleoside + phosphate + base = nucleotide). This is true whether it is a monophosphate, diphosphate, or triphosphate.

7. The nitrogenous bases found in nucleotides include adenine (purine), guanine (purine), thymine (pyrimidine), cytosine (pyrimidine), and uracil (pyrimidine).

8. The bases adenine, guanine, and cytosine are found in both ribonucleotides and deoxyribonucleotides. Thymine is almost always found in deoxyribonucleotides. Uracil is found primarily in ribonucleotides and rarely in DNA, but does appear as a deoxyribonucleotide intermediate in thymidine metabolism.

9. Nucleosides are named according to the base they contain. Nucleosides containing purines are named by adding "os" before the "ine." Thus, nucleosides containing guanine are called guanosine. Nucleosides containing pyrmidines are named with the suffix "idine" at the end of the name of the base they contain. Thus, the pyrimidine nucleosides are cytidine, uridine, and thymidine.

10. Ribonucleotides are the building blocks of RNA and deoxyribonucleotides are the building blocks of DNA.

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[Leon2101]

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[mcimmah]

Thanks for this great piece of work. It's really helpful.

[zidantherandomed]

BTW they didnt call it Deoxy Thymidine because Thymine is not present in the RNA the second carbon of the ribose doesnt attach to its structure due to its Oxygen which is actually remoxed in the deoxyribose..... And so Its Thymidine ;)

[zidantherandomed]

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