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Preferred term

Guanosine Pentaphosphate  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Guanosine 5'-triphosphate 2'(3')-diphosphate. A guanine nucleotide containing five phosphate groups. Three phosphate groups are esterified to the sugar moiety in the 5' position and the other two in the 2' or 3' position. This nucleotide serves as a messenger to turn off the synthesis of ribosomal RNA when amino acids are not available for protein synthesis.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • 38918-96-6
  • Alarmone pppGpp
  • Bacterial Magic Spot pppGpp
  • Guanosine 3'-Diphosphate 5'-Triphosphate
  • Guanosine 5'-(tetrahydrogen triphosphate), 3'-(trihydrogen diphosphate)
  • (p)ppGpp
  • ppprGpp

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-DTZ7VNLL-7

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