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guanosine tetraphosphate

Description

Guanosine Tetraphosphate: Guanosine 5'-diphosphate 2'(3')-diphosphate. A guanine nucleotide containing four phosphate groups. Two phosphate groups are esterified to the sugar moiety in the 5' position and the other two in the 2' or 3' position. This nucleotide serves as a messenger to turn off the synthesis of ribosomal RNA when amino acids are not available for protein synthesis. Synonym: magic spot I. [Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), National Library of Medicine, extracted Dec-2023]

guanosine 3',5'-bis(diphosphate) : A guanosine bisphosphate having diphosphate groups at both the 3' and 5'-positions. [Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI), Hastings J, Owen G, Dekker A, Ennis M, Kale N, Muthukrishnan V, Turner S, Swainston N, Mendes P, Steinbeck C. (2016). ChEBI in 2016: Improved services and an expanding collection of metabolites. Nucleic Acids Res]

Cross-References

ID SourceID
PubMed CID135398637
CHEBI ID17633
SCHEMBL ID234673
MeSH IDM0009693

Synonyms (22)

Synonym
g4p ,
guanosine 5'-diphosphate,3'-diphosphate
guanosine 3'-diphosphate 5'-diphosphate
guanosine tetraphosphate
guanosine 3',5'-bis(diphosphate)
guanosine 3',5'-bispyrophosphate
C01228
guanosine-5',3'-tetraphosphate
DB04022
CHEBI:17633
guanosine 3',5'-bis(trihydrogen diphosphate)
33503-72-9
guanosine 5'-(trihydrogen diphosphate), mono(trihydrogen diphosphate) (ester)
magic spot i
SCHEMBL234673
32452-17-8
guanosine tetraphosphate;ppgpp
Q27102490
guanosine 3',5'-bisdiphosphate
[(2r,3s,4r,5r)-5-(2-amino-6-oxo-1h-purin-9-yl)-4-hydroxy-2-[[hydroxy(phosphonooxy)phosphoryl]oxymethyl]oxolan-3-yl] phosphono hydrogen phosphate
DTXSID50955132
9-{3,5-bis-o-[hydroxy(phosphonooxy)phosphoryl]pentofuranosyl}-2-imino-3,9-dihydro-2h-purin-6-ol

Research Excerpts

Overview

Ganosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) is a universal stress signal that, in most bacteria, drives the reprograming of transcription at a global level. It is a key mediator of stringent control, an adaptive response of bacteria to amino acid starvation.

ExcerptReference
"Guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) is a universal stress signal that, in most bacteria, drives the reprograming of transcription at a global level."( Diverse molecular mechanisms of transcription regulation by the bacterial alarmone ppGpp.
Schumacher, MA; Travis, BA, 2022
)
"Guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) is an alarmone that enables bacteria to adapt to their environment. "( The mechanism of E. coli RNA polymerase regulation by ppGpp is suggested by the structure of their complex.
Steitz, TA; Wang, Y; Zuo, Y, 2013
)
"Guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) is a signal of nutritional stress that regulates transcription. "( Conversion of active promoter-RNA polymerase complexes into inactive promoter bound complexes in E. coli by the transcription effector, ppGpp.
Hernandez, VJ; Maitra, A; Shulgina, I, 2005
)
"Guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) is a key mediator of stringent control, an adaptive response of bacteria to amino acid starvation, and has thus been termed a bacterial alarmone. "( Physiological analysis of the stringent response elicited in an extreme thermophilic bacterium, Thermus thermophilus.
Aoki, H; Hosaka, T; Kasai, K; Nishizawa, T; Ochi, K; Takahashi, K, 2006
)

Dosage Studied

ExcerptReference
" The results indicated: 1) increased rrn gene dosage from either intact or defective rrn genes reduced bacterial growth rates and ribosome activity (protein synthesis rate/average ribosome), and increased rs/rt."( Control of rRNA synthesis in Escherichia coli at increased rrn gene dosage. Role of guanosine tetraphosphate and ribosome feedback.
Baracchini, E; Bremer, H, 1991
)
" By combining lacZ mRNA hybridization data with gene dosage and rRNA synthesis data, the absolute activity of the different promoters, in transcripts/minute per promoter, was determined."( Activities of constitutive promoters in Escherichia coli.
Bipatnath, M; Bremer, H; Chen, S; Dennis, P; Ehrenberg, M; Liang, S; Xu, Y, 1999
)
" Effective toxin production occurs only after prophage induction, and one may presume that replication of the phage genome is important for an increase in the dosage of stx genes, positively influencing their expression."( Replication of plasmids derived from Shiga toxin-converting bacteriophages in starved Escherichia coli.
Nadratowska-Wesołowska, B; Nejman, B; Szalewska-Pałasz, A; Węgrzyn, A; Węgrzyn, G, 2011
)
[information is derived through text-mining from research data collected from National Library of Medicine (NLM), extracted Dec-2023]

Roles (2)

RoleDescription
Escherichia coli metaboliteAny bacterial metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in Escherichia coli.
mouse metaboliteAny mammalian metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in a mouse (Mus musculus).
[role information is derived from Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI), Hastings J, Owen G, Dekker A, Ennis M, Kale N, Muthukrishnan V, Turner S, Swainston N, Mendes P, Steinbeck C. (2016). ChEBI in 2016: Improved services and an expanding collection of metabolites. Nucleic Acids Res]

Drug Classes (1)

ClassDescription
guanosine bisphosphate
[compound class information is derived from Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI), Hastings J, Owen G, Dekker A, Ennis M, Kale N, Muthukrishnan V, Turner S, Swainston N, Mendes P, Steinbeck C. (2016). ChEBI in 2016: Improved services and an expanding collection of metabolites. Nucleic Acids Res]

Pathways (1)

PathwayProteinsCompounds
ppGpp biosynthesis011

Research

Studies (859)

TimeframeStudies, This Drug (%)All Drugs %
pre-1990274 (31.90)18.7374
1990's150 (17.46)18.2507
2000's177 (20.61)29.6817
2010's187 (21.77)24.3611
2020's71 (8.27)2.80
[information is prepared from research data collected from National Library of Medicine (NLM), extracted Dec-2023]

Study Types

Publication TypeThis drug (%)All Drugs (%)
Trials0 (0.00%)5.53%
Reviews63 (7.27%)6.00%
Case Studies0 (0.00%)4.05%
Observational0 (0.00%)0.25%
Other804 (92.73%)84.16%
[information is prepared from research data collected from National Library of Medicine (NLM), extracted Dec-2023]