Deoxythymidine triphosphate (dTTP) is one of the four
nucleoside triphosphates that are used in the ''in vivo'' synthesis of
DNA. Unlike the other
deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates, thymidine triphosphate does not always contain the "deoxy" prefix in its name.
The corresponding
ribonucleoside A ribonucleoside is a type of nucleoside including ribose as a component.
One example of a ribonucleoside is cytidine.
References
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triphosphate is called
uridine triphosphate
Uridine-5′-triphosphate (UTP) is a pyrimidine nucleoside triphosphate, consisting of the organic base uracil linked to the 1′ carbon of the ribose sugar, and esterified with tri- phosphoric acid at the 5′ position. Its main role is as sub ...
.
It can be used by
DNA ligase to create overlapping "sticky ends" so that protruding ends of opened microbial
plasmid
A plasmid is a small, extrachromosomal DNA molecule within a cell that is physically separated from chromosomal DNA and can replicate independently. They are most commonly found as small circular, double-stranded DNA molecules in bacteria; how ...
s may be closed up.
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Nucleotides
Phosphate esters
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