 Deoxycytidine diphosphate

Deoxycytidine diphosphate is a nucleoside diphosphate.It is related to the common nucleic acid CTP, or cytidine triphosphate, with the -OH (hydroxyl) group on the 2' carbon on the nucleotide's pentose removed (hence the deoxy- part of the name), and with one fewer phosphoryl group than CTP .