Cytidine diphosphate This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Cytidine_diphosphate".
Cytidine diphosphate, abbreviated CDP, is a nucleotide. It is an ester of pyrophosphoric acid with the nucleoside cytidine. CDP consists of the pyrophosphate group, the pentose sugar ribose, and the nucleobase cytosine.