Sentences with phrase «ribose nucleotides»

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Many of Rick Pierson's comments are correct, in particular his identification of what scientists call the water problem: the fact that the reaction of a phosphate with ribose and nucleobases to form a nucleotide is energetically uphill in water.

Also, RNA nucleotides contain ribose sugars while DNA contains deoxyribose and RNA uses predominantly uracil instead of thymine present in DNA.

More importantly, chemists have now found solid potential chemical pathways for the synthesis of life's basic building blocks; nucleotides, ribose, amino acids and lipids.

The product of this pathway is ribose - 5 - phosphate, which in turn is converted to 5 - phosphoribosyl -1-pyrophosphate (PRPP), the primary driver in the synthesis and salvage of purine nucleotides.

D - ribose is a structural component of DNA, RNA, ATP, GTP, flavins (FAD, riboflavin) and other important nucleotides found in all living cells.