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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.

Term:folic acid
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Accession:CHEBI:27470 term browser browse the term
Definition:An N-acyl-amino acid that is a form of the water-soluble vitamin B9. Its biologically active forms (tetrahydrofolate and others) are essential for nucleotide biosynthesis and homocysteine remethylation.
Synonyms:related_synonym: (2S)-2-(4-{[(2-amino-4-oxo-3,4-dihydropteridin-6-yl)methyl]amino}benzamido)pentanedioic acid;   Acfol;   Folate;   Folicet;   Folsaeure;   Formula=C19H19N7O6;   InChI=1S/C19H19N7O6/c20-19-25-15-14(17(30)26-19)23-11(8-22-15)7-21-10-3-1-9(2-4-10)16(29)24-12(18(31)32)5-6-13(27)28/h1-4,8,12,21H,5-7H2,(H,24,29)(H,27,28)(H,31,32)(H3,20,22,25,26,30)/t12-/m0/s1;   InChIKey=OVBPIULPVIDEAO-LBPRGKRZSA-N;   N-(4-{[(2-Amino-4-oxo-3,4-dihydropteridin-6-yl)methyl]amino}benzoyl)-L-glutamic acid;   N-[(4-{[(2-amino-4-oxo-1,4-dihydropteridin-6-yl)methyl]amino}phenyl)carbonyl]-L-glutamic acid;   N-pteroyl-L-glutamic acid;   PGA;   PteGlu;   Pteroylglutamic acid;   SMILES=Nc1nc2ncc(CNc3ccc(cc3)C(=O)N[C@@H](CCC(O)=O)C(O)=O)nc2c(=O)[nH]1;   acide folique;   acido folico;   acidum folicum;   pteroyl-L-glutamic acid;   pteroyl-L-monoglutamic acid;   pteroylmonoglutamic acid;   vitamin B11;   vitamin B9;   vitamin Bc;   vitamin Be;   vitamin M
 alt_id: CHEBI:24075;   CHEBI:42610;   CHEBI:5140;   CHEBI:569217
 xref: AGR:IND606960789;   Beilstein:100781;   CAS:59-30-3;   Chemspider:5815;   DrugBank:DB00158;   Drug_Central:1231;   FooDB:FDB014504;   HMDB:HMDB0000121;   KEGG:C00504;   KEGG:D00070;   KNApSAcK:C00001539;   LINCS:LSM-5355
 xref_mesh: MESH:D005492
 xref: MetaCyc:CPD-12826;   PDBeChem:FOL;   PMID:10138938;   PMID:10897644;   PMID:10958818;   PMID:11261364;   PMID:11451208;   PMID:11959400;   PMID:14387833;   PMID:15321809;   PMID:15523939;   PMID:15754725;   PMID:15797531;   PMID:15797685;   PMID:15831910;   PMID:15990733;   PMID:16093404;   PMID:16277678;   PMID:16380297;   PMID:16871332;   PMID:17784727;   PMID:18788725;   PMID:19121630;   PMID:19335717;   PMID:19355913;   PMID:24650098;   PMID:33624660;   PMID:33965562;   PMID:33968971;   PMID:34207319;   PMID:34219855;   PMID:7738698;   PMID:8235383;   PMID:9040515;   PMID:9420019;   PMID:9565830;   PMID:9683174;   PMID:9781393;   PMID:9808640;   PMID:9808641;   Reaxys:100781;   Wikipedia:Folic_Acid
 cyclic_relationship: is_conjugate_acid_of CHEBI:62501



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                                                      L-glutamic acid derivative 9570
                                                        folic acids 9590
                                                          folic acid 9550
                                                            4-aminofolic acid 1
                                                            vitamin B complex 0
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