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 cyclohexanone that is cyclohexane-1,3-dione substituted at position 2 by a 2-nitro-4-(trifluoromethyl)benzoyl group. It is used in the treatment of hereditary tyrosinemia type 1.
[nitisinone results in decreased activity of HPD protein] which results in decreased expression of GCLC mRNA; [nitisinone results in decreased activity of HPD protein] which results in decreased expression of GCLM mRNA; [nitisinone results in decreased activity of HPD protein] which results in decreased expression of HMOX1 mRNA; [nitisinone results in decreased activity of HPD protein] which results in decreased expression of NQO1 mRNA