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 substrate for the synthesis of RNA during transcription. ==Role in metabolism== UTP also has the role of a sourc......
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(from the article `metabolism`) ...The reaction, catalyzed by a galactokinase, results in the formation of galactose 1-phosphate; this product is transformed to glucose 1-phosphate ... Analogous to the phosphorylation of purine nucleotides (steps [69] and [43a]) is the phosphorylation of UMP to UDP and thence to UTP by interaction ... ...
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A molecule which consists of the nitrogenous base uracil linked to the sugar ribose and which has a chain of three phosphate groups attached to the ribose in a linear fashion. UTP is required during transcription since it is a direct precursor of RNA. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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