CHEBI:3303 - calcein am

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ChEBI Name calcein am
ChEBI ID CHEBI:3303
Definition An organic heteropentacyclic compound that is calcein in which all four carboxy group hydrogens have been substituted by (acetyloxy)methoxy groups and the hyrodgens of the two hydroxy groups have been substituted by acetyl groups. It is a a non-fluorescent probe cleaved to a fluorescent probe by non-specific intracellular esterases.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Secondary ChEBI IDs CHEBI:51904
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Formula C46H46N2O23
Net Charge 0
Average Mass 994.865
Monoisotopic Mass 994.24914
InChI InChI=1S/C46H46N2O23/c1-25(49)60-21-64-41(55)17-47(18-42(56)65-22-61-26(2)50)15-31-11-35-39(13-37(31)68-29(5)53)70-40-14-38(69-30(6)54)32(12-36(40)46(35)34-10-8-7-9-33(34)45(59)71-46)16-48(19-43(57)66-23-62-27(3)51)20-44(58)67-24-63-28(4)52/h7-14H,15-24H2,1-6H3
InChIKey BQRGNLJZBFXNCZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES O(C1=C(C=C2C3(OC(C4=C3C=CC=C4)=O)C=5C(OC2=C1)=CC(=C(C5)CN(CC(OCOC(C)=O)=O)CC(OCOC(C)=O)=O)OC(C)=O)CN(CC(OCOC(C)=O)=O)CC(OCOC(C)=O)=O)C(C)=O
Roles Classification
Application(s): fluorochrome
A fluorescent dye used to stain biological specimens.
dye

(via xanthene dye )
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Outgoing calcein am (CHEBI:3303) has functional parent calcein (CHEBI:51903)
calcein am (CHEBI:3303) has role fluorochrome (CHEBI:51217)
calcein am (CHEBI:3303) is a γ-lactone (CHEBI:37581)
calcein am (CHEBI:3303) is a 2-benzofurans (CHEBI:38831)
calcein am (CHEBI:3303) is a acetate ester (CHEBI:47622)
calcein am (CHEBI:3303) is a organic heteropentacyclic compound (CHEBI:38164)
calcein am (CHEBI:3303) is a oxaspiro compound (CHEBI:37948)
calcein am (CHEBI:3303) is a xanthene dye (CHEBI:37929)
IUPAC Name
tetrakis[(acetyloxy)methyl] 2,2',2'',2'''-{[3',6'-bis(acetyloxy)-3-oxo-3H-spiro[[2]benzofuran-1,9'-xanthene]-2',7'-diyl]bis(methanediylnitrilo)}tetraacetate
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[({[3',6'-bis(acetyloxy)-3-oxo-3H-spiro[[2]benzofuran-1,9'-xanthene]-2',7'-diyl]bis(methylene)nitrilo}bis[(1-oxoethane-2,1-diyl)oxy]methylene)] tetraacetate IUPAC
Calcein AM KEGG COMPOUND
calcein O,O'-diacetate tetrakis(acetoxymethyl) ester ChEBI
Manual Xref Database
C11257 KEGG COMPOUND
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Registry Number Type Source
148504-34-1 CAS Registry Number ChemIDplus
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Last Modified
07 October 2019