thymidine
Noun
Meaning
a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of thymine and deoxyribose
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Aspartate carbamoyltransferase performs a step in building the pyrimidine nucleotides ( cytosine and thymidine ).
It phosphorylates thymidine to create thymidine monophosphate (dTMP).
Thymidine can be phosphorylated with one, two, or three phosphoric acid groups, creating, respectively, TMP, TDP, or TTP (thymidine mono-, di-, or triphosphate).
This transfer of a phosphate from one nucleotide to another by thymidine kinase, as well as other nucleoside and nucleotide kinases, functions to help control the level of each of the different nucleotides.
Overall reaction catalysed by thymidine kinase.
This kinase uses an ATP molecule to supply the phosphate to thymidine, as shown below.