GTP
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|Empirical formula||C
10H
16N
5O
14P
3
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Molecular weight||523.18
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GTP (also known as
guanylyl imidodiphosphate,
guanosine-5'-triphosphate, or
guanosine triphosphate) is a
chemical compound (
nucleotide) essential to
signal transduction in
living cells, where it is converted to
GDP through GTPases.
GTP also can be involved in energy transfer within the cell. For instance, one GTP molecule is generated for every turn of the Krebs cycle. This is tantamount to the generation of one molecule of ATP since GTP is readilty converted to ATP.