The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.
A polysaccharide derivative consisting of beta-D-glucopyranosyl residues linked (1->3), with approximately 20% of the residues carrying a carboxymethyl substituent at O-6. A soluble/gelatinous substrate for the assay of endo-1,3-beta-D-glucanase.