Formula C9H14N2O12P2 | Molar mass 404.1612 g/mol | |
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Medical vocabulary what does uridine diphosphate glucose mean
Uridine diphosphate, abbreviated UDP, is a nucleotide diphosphate. It is an ester of pyrophosphoric acid with the nucleoside uridine. UDP consists of the pyrophosphate group, the pentose sugar ribose, and the nucleobase uracil.
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- Medical vocabulary what does uridine diphosphate glucose mean
- Medical vocabulary what does uridine diphosphate glucuronic acid mean
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UDP is an important factor in glycogenesis. Before glucose can be stored as glycogen in the liver and muscles, the enzyme UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase forms a UDP-glucose unit by combining glucose 1-phosphate with uridine triphosphate, cleaving a pyrophosphate ion in the process. Then, the enzyme glycogen synthase combines UDP-glucose units to form a glycogen chain. The UDP molecule is cleaved from the glucose ring during this process and can be reused by UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase.
Medical vocabulary what does uridine diphosphate glucuronic acid mean
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