Uridine-5′-triphosphate (UTP) is a pyrimidine nucleoside triphosphate consisting of the organic base uracil linked to the 1′ carbon of the ribose sugar and esterified with tri-phosphoric acid at the 5′ position. Its main role is as substrate for the synthesis of RNA during transcription.
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