Cytidine diphosphate glucose, often abbreviated CDP-glucose, is a nucleotide-linked sugar consisting of cytidine diphosphate and glucose.

Biosynthesis

CDP-glucose is produced from CTP and

glucose-1-phosphate Glucose 1-phosphate (also called cori ester) is a glucose molecule with a phosphate group on the 1'-carbon. It can exist in either the α- or β-anomeric form. Reactions of α-glucose 1-phosphate Catabolic In glycogenolysis, it is the direct pro ...

by the enzyme

glucose-1-phosphate cytidylyltransferase In enzymology, a glucose-1-phosphate cytidylyltransferase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction :CTP + alpha-D-glucose 1-phosphate \rightleftharpoons diphosphate + CDP-glucose Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are CTP and ...

References

{{Nucleotide sugars Biochemistry Nucleotides