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ADENYLIC acid, or adenosine-5′-phosphate, is a nucleotide of particular biochemical interest. It is not only a component of ribonucleic acid, but also forms a part of the structure of many coenzymes and, as the di- and tri-phosphate, it is frequently involved in metabolic processes. Spencer1 has reviewed the information at present available on the constituent components of the nucleotides from crystal structure analysis. In addition to the references cited by Spencer, one may also mention the brief note of Brown et al. 2 on a single projection of adenosine-3′-phosphate and the paper by Alver and Furberg3 on the structure of cytidine-3′-phosphate. No nucleoside-5′-phosphate has been solved previously.
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Spencer, M., Acta Cryst., 12, 59 (1959).
Brown, D. M., Fasman, G. D., Magrath, D. I., Todd, A. R., Cochran, W., and Woolfson, M. M., Nature, 172, 1184 (1953).
Alver, A., and Furberg, S., Acta Chem. Scand., 13, 910 (1959).
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KRAUT, J., JENSEN, L. Crystal Structure of Adenosine-5′-phosphate. Nature 186, 798 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186798a0
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