Things fit together

[fivemack]

I hadn't realised that the A in ATP, adenosine triphosphate, the universal fuel of cellular processes, was the same chemical as the A in the ACGT genetic alphabet. Had you?

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[kaet.livejournal.com]

It's quite cool. You get GTP and UTP, too, and (to a lesser extent) CTP, and TTP. GTP and UTP, at least, are used as energy currency in some places. GTP is praticularly interesting because it's involved in G-proteins. Well, it's particularly interesting if you're particularly interested in G-proteins, anyway.