{"id":600,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"the-helicase-cut?","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"The Helicase Cut?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>The Helicase Cut?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"175\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Deoxy-ribose%20sugar.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The sugar found in DNA is called a Deoxy-ribose, while the sugar in RNA is called a Ribose. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The phosphate groups attach to the 3rd (3&rsquo;) and the 5th (5&rsquo;) carbon atom of each sugar. One strand has a 5&#8242; (prime) &gt; 3&#8242; (prime) direction; the other a 3&#8242; prime &gt; 5&#8242; prime direction. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This has consequences for enzymes that work on the DNA. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">enzyme Helicase<\/span> cuts DNA in half for replication from its 5&#8242; to its 3&#8242; end. <br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"267\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/DNA-RNA%20directions.gif\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Guanosine is a purine <a href=\"?p=597\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">nucleoside<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;that has guanine linked by its N9 nitrogen to the C1 carbon of the ribose. It is a component of ribonucleic acid and its <a href=\"?p=597\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">nucleotides<\/span><\/a> play important roles in <a href=\"?p=625\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">metabolism<\/span><\/a>.  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=620\"><strong><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Helicase Cut? The sugar found in DNA is called a Deoxy-ribose, while the sugar in RNA is called a Ribose. The phosphate groups attach to the 3rd (3&rsquo;) and the 5th (5&rsquo;) carbon atom of each sugar. One strand has a 5&#8242; (prime) &gt; 3&#8242; (prime) direction; the other a 3&#8242; prime &gt; 5&#8242;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}