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Thymidine triphosphate

Identifiers
CAS number	[365-08-2]
PubChem	1151
MeSH	thymidine+5'-triphosphate
Properties
Molecular formula	C10H17N2O14P3
Molar mass	482.168
Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa)
Infobox references

Thymidine triphosphate or TTP (sometimes called dTTP, or the maker of DNA indicating that the pentose has a OH group on the 3' carbon) is one of the four nucleoside triphosphates that are used in the in vivo synthesis of DNA.

It can be used by DNA ligase to create overlapping "sticky ends" so that protruding ends of opened microbial plasmids may be closed up.

Nucleobases, nucleosides, and nucleotides

Nucleobases

Purine (Adenine, Guanine, Purine analogue) · Pyrimidine (Uracil, Thymine, Cytosine, Pyrimidine analogue)

Nucleosides/
(NB+pentose)

Ribonucleosides	Adenosine · Guanosine · Uridine · Cytidine

Deoxyribonucleosides	Deoxyadenosine · Deoxyguanosine · Thymidine · Deoxyuridine · Deoxycytidine

Nucleotides/
(NS+phosphate)

Ribonucleotide	monophosphates (AMP, GMP, UMP, CMP) · diphosphates (ADP, GDP, UDP, CDP) · triphosphates (ATP, GTP, UTP, CTP)

Deoxyribonucleotides	monophosphates (dAMP, dGMP, dUMP, TMP, dCMP) · diphosphates (dADP, dGDP, TDP, dCDP) · triphosphates (dATP, dGTP, TTP, dCTP)

Cyclic	cAMP, cGMP, c-di-GMP, cADPR

Major families of biochemicals
Saccharides/Carbohydrates/Glycosides · Amino acids/Peptides/Proteins/Glycoproteins · Lipids/Terpenes/Steroids/Carotenoids · Alkaloids/Nucleobases/Nucleic acids · Cofactors/Flavonoids/Polyketides/Tetrapyrroles

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	TTP
	dTTP (pyrimidine nucleotide)
	thymine (material – in chemistry, biology)

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