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 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