Cytidine diphosphate

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Cytidine diphosphate
Chemical name Cytidine 5'-(trihydrogen diphosphate)
Chemical formula C9H15N3O11P2
Molecular mass 403.18 g/mol
CAS number 34393-59-4
SMILES O[C@H]1[C@H]([C@H](N2C=
CC(N)=NC2=O)O[C@@H]1
COP(O)(OP(O)(O)=O)=O)O
Chemical structure of deprotonated CDP

Cytidine diphosphate, abbreviated CDP, is a nucleotide. It is an ester of pyrophosphoric acid with the nucleoside cytidine. CDP consists of the pyrophosphate group, the pentose sugar ribose, and the nucleobase cytosine.

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