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| | ChemCases: Cisplatin - 14. DNA |
 | | The sugar present in a deoxyribonucleotide is deoxyribose, which lacks an oxygen that is present in its parent compound, ribose. |
 | | The helical structure repeats after ten deoxyribonucleotide units on each chain (at intervals of 34 Å), as shown in Figure 1. |
 | | One of these is DNA polymerase I, which catalyzes the step-by-step addition of activated deoxyribonucleotide units to a DNA chain; the activated deoxyribonucleotide units for adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine are represented as dATP, dGTP, dTTP, and dCTP, respectively. |
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