Lecture 3: Cell Chemistry 2 (Nucleic Acids)

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Pieces of a Nucleotide

-Sugar
-Phosphate
-Base

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β-D-ribose

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β-D-2-deoxyribose

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Pyrimidine

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Purine

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Adenine

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Thymine

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Uracil

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Guanine

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Cytosine

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Where does a phosphate group bind to a sugar?

Typically at the C5 (5') hydroxyl of the ribose or deoxyribose sugar.

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ATP (adenosine triphosphate)

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Direction of DNA replication:

5'→3'
(Occurs at the reaction positive 3' carbon).

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Charge of DNA/RNA backbone:

Negative