Talk:Nucleotide

Template:Wikiproject MCB I uploaded two images in the "Synthesis" section and i made them as thumbs as i thought that having them in full size would take too much space. Well if anyone feels that they have to be full size then go ahead and do it. BorisTM 12:20, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Introduction

There was some redundancy like - heterocyclic nucleobase (nucleobases by definition are heterocyclic), pentose sugar (pentose by definition is a sugar). Nucleotides are class of molecules and not all of them have purine or pyrimidine derivative as their base or pentose as their sugar. Boris 03:45, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Genetic nucleotides information needed

There should be some distinction between nucleotides in nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) and those used in other ways, most prominently ATP. Maybe there should be a few separate articles discussing these different types rather than making people have to read the articles on adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine, and uracil and have to find the similarities for themselves.

Typo in picture

There's a typo in the first picture, but I'm not able to edit it easily.

Change 'Deoxiribose' to 'Deoxyribose'

Thanks. --64.251.84.43 03:14, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Nucleoside vs Nucleotide

I am not a biochemist by training, but all my references list the various Nucleotides as Nucleoside monophosphate, Nucleoside diphosphate, and Nucleoside triphosphate. Which is correct, or are they both correct? Ted 15:26, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

They are both correct. -- Boris 23:20, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

No. nucleoside monophosphate, or nuclelotide. saying "nucleotide monophosphate" is redundant, as "nucleotide" = "nucleoside phosphate" and "nucleoside phosphate monophosphate" sounds a little silly.

As far as my understanding, if a phosphate group attached it is a necleotide otherwies it is a necleoside.

Yes, I agree. There's no such things as nucleotide phosphates. It's either nucleoside phosphates, or nucleotides. 130.243.248.239 14:35, 19 November 2006 (UTC)