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Guanosine triphosphate
Chemical structure of GTP
Chemical name Guanosine triphosphate
Chemical formula C10H16N5O14P3
Molecular mass 523.18 g/mol
CAS number [xx-xx-xx]
Density x.xxx g/cm3
Melting point xx.x °C
Boiling point xx.x °C
SMILES xxx
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Guanosine triphosphate (GTP) is also known as guanosine-5'-triphosphate. Biochemically, GTP is 9-β-D-ribofuranosylguanine-5'-triphosphate or, equivalently, 9-β-D-ribofuranosyl-2-amino-6-oxo-purine-5'-triphosphate. GTP is a purine nucleotide that is incorporated into the growing RNA chain during RNA synthesis, and used as a source of energy for protein synthesis. It is very similar to adenosine triphosphate.

GTP is also essential to signal transduction, where it is converted to GDP (guanosine diphosphate) through the action of GTPases.

Energy transfer[]

GTP is involved in energy transfer within the cell. For instance, one GTP molecule is generated for every turn of the citric acid cycle. This is tantamount to the generation of one molecule of ATP since GTP is readily converted to ATP.


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