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CHEBI:81571 - Leptin
| ChEBI ID | CHEBI:81571 |
| ChEBI Name | Leptin |
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| Last Modified | 6 February 2026 |
| Roles Classification |
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| Chemical Roles: | Bronsted base A molecular entity capable of accepting a hydron from a donor (Brønsted acid). Bronsted base A molecular entity capable of accepting a hydron from a donor (Brønsted acid). |
| Biological Role: | hormone Originally referring to an endogenous compound that is formed in specialized organ or group of cells and carried to another organ or group of cells, in the same organism, upon which it has a specific regulatory function, the term is now commonly used to include non-endogenous, semi-synthetic and fully synthetic analogues of such compounds. |
| ChEBI Ontology |
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| Outgoing Relation(s) |
| Leptin (CHEBI:81571) is a peptide hormone (CHEBI:25905) |
| Manual Xrefs | Databases |
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| C18188 | KEGG COMPOUND |
| Registry Numbers | Sources |
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| CAS:169494-85-3 | KEGG COMPOUND |