Cytidine diphosphate

Cytidine diphosphate
Chemical name Guanosine 5'-(trihydrogen diphosphate)
Chemical formula C9H15N3O11P2
Molecular mass 403.18 g/mol
CAS number 34393-59-4
SMILES O[C@H]1[C@H]([C@H](N2C=
CC(N)=NC2=O)O[C@@H]1
COP(O)(OP(O)(O)=O)=O)O
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Chemical structure of deprotonated CDP

Cytidine diphosphate, abbreviated CDP, is a nucleotide. It is an ester of pyrophosphoric acid with the nucleoside cytidine. CDP consists of the pyrophosphate group, the pentose sugar ribose, and the nucleobase cytosine.

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Nucleic acids edit

Nucleobases: Adenine - Thymine - Uracil - Guanine - Cytosine - Purine - Pyrimidine

Nucleosides: Adenosine - Thymidine - Uridine - Guanosine - Cytidine - Deoxyadenosine - Deoxythymidine - Deoxyuridine - Deoxyguanosine - Deoxycytidine - Ribose - Deoxyribose

Nucleotides: AMP - TMP - UMP - GMP - CMP - ADP - TDP - UDP - GDP - CDP - ATP - TTP - UTP - GTP - CTP - cAMP - cGMP

Deoxynucleotides: dAMP - dTMP - dUMP - dGMP - dCMP - dADP - dTDP - dUDP - dGDP - dCDP - dATP - dTTP - dUTP - dGTP - dCTP

Nucleic acids: DNA - RNA - LNA - mRNA - ncRNA - miRNA - rRNA - shRNA - siRNA - tRNA - MtDNA - Oligonucleotide

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See also: Cytidine diphosphate, Adenine, Adenosine, Adenosine diphosphate, Adenosine monophosphate, Adenosine triphosphate, Biochemistry