leucopterin (keto form) (CHEBI:178010)

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ChEBI Name	leucopterin (keto form)

ChEBI ID	CHEBI:178010

Definition	A member of the class of pterins that is 3,4,5,6,7,8-hexahydropteridine substituted by an amino group at position 2 and oxo groups at positions 4, 6 and 7. It is a pigment found in the wings of butterflies.

Stars	This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.

Submitter	Mark Williams

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Formula

C6H5N5O3

Net Charge

Average Mass

195.138

Monoisotopic Mass

195.03924

InChI

InChI=1S/C6H5N5O3/c7-6-10-2-1(3(12)11-6)8-4(13)5(14)9-2/h(H,8,13)(H4,7,9,10,11,12,14)

InChIKey

SFLOGVVDXPCWGR-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

NC1=NC2=C(NC(=O)C(=O)N2)C(=O)N1

Metabolite of Species	Details
Libytheana carinenta bachmanii (NCBI:txid1178125)	Found in wings. Species also known as Libytheana bachmanii. See: PubMed
Pieris rapae (NCBI:txid64459)	Found in wings. See: PubMed
Sturnus vulgaris (NCBI:txid9172)	See: PubMed

Roles Classification
Biological Role(s):	biological pigment An endogenous molecular entity that results in a colour of an organism as the consequence of the selective absorption of light. animal metabolite Any eukaryotic metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in animals that include diverse creatures from sponges, insects to mammals.

ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing	leucopterin (keto form) (CHEBI:178010) has role animal metabolite (CHEBI:75767) leucopterin (keto form) (CHEBI:178010) has role biological pigment (CHEBI:26130) leucopterin (keto form) (CHEBI:178010) is a pterins (CHEBI:26375) leucopterin (keto form) (CHEBI:178010) is tautomer of leucopterin (enol form) (CHEBI:178109)

Incoming	leucopterin (enol form) (CHEBI:178109) is tautomer of leucopterin (keto form) (CHEBI:178010)

IUPAC Name

2-amino-5,8-dihydropteridine-4,6,7(3H)-trione

Synonyms	Sources
2-amino-5,8-dihydro-4,6,7(3H)-pteridinetrione	ChEBI
leikopterin	ChemIDplus
leucopterin	ChemIDplus
leukopterin	ChemIDplus

Last Modified

08 September 2021