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03-08-2011 13:32 Lecture by Kevin Ahern of Oregon State University discussing Biochemistry Basics in BB 451. See the full course at oregonstate.edu This course can be taken for credit (wherever you live) via OSU's ecampus. For details, see ecampus.oregonstate.edu Download Metabolic Melodies at http://www.davincipress.com Related courses include BB 350 - oregonstate.edu BB 450 - oregonstate.edu BB 100 - oregonstate.edu Nucleotide Metabolism 1. Nucleotides consist of a) sugar, b) nitrogenous base, and c) phosphate 2. Nucleosides consist of aa) sugar and b) nitrogenous base 3. The sugars of nucleosides and nucleotides are either ribose (found in ribonucleotides of RNA) or deoxyribose (found in deoxyribonucleotides of DNA). 4. The nitrogenous bases found in nucleotides include adenine (purine), guanine (purine), thymine (pyrimidine), cytosine (pyrimidine), and uracil (pyrimidine). 5. The bases adenine, guanine, and cytosine are found in both ribonucleotides and deoxyribonucleotides. Thymine is almost always found in deoxyribonucleotides. Uracil is found primarily in ribonucleotides and rarely in DNA, but does appear as a deoxyribonucleotide intermediate in thymidine metabolism. 6. Ribonucleotides are the building blocks of RNA and deoxyribonucleotides are the building blocks of DNA. 7. Nucleotides and nucleosides are made in cells by two general mechanisms - salvage pathways (use breakdown products of other nucleotides/nucleosides) or de novo pathways (synthesize nucleotides/nucleosides from scratch ...

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Bite-Sized Biochemistry #39 - Nucleotide Metabolism I - Video