3-methylmalic acid (CHEBI:25312)

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ChEBI Name	3-methylmalic acid

ChEBI ID	CHEBI:25312

Definition	A dicarboxylic acid that is succinic acid carrying hydroxy and methyl substituents at positions 2 and 3 respectively.

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

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Formula

C5H8O5

Net Charge

Average Mass

148.11402

Monoisotopic Mass

148.03717

InChI

InChI=1S/C5H8O5/c1-2(4(7)8)3(6)5(9)10/h2-3,6H,1H3,(H,7,8)(H,9,10)

InChIKey

NPYQJIHHTGFBLN-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CC(C(O)C(O)=O)C(O)=O

Metabolite of Species	Details
Homo sapiens (NCBI:txid9606)	See: PubMed

Roles Classification
Chemical Role(s):	Bronsted acid A molecular entity capable of donating a hydron to an acceptor (Bronsted base). (via oxoacid )

Biological Role(s):	human metabolite Any mammalian metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in humans (Homo sapiens).

ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing	3-methylmalic acid (CHEBI:25312) has functional parent succinic acid (CHEBI:15741) 3-methylmalic acid (CHEBI:25312) has role human metabolite (CHEBI:77746) 3-methylmalic acid (CHEBI:25312) is a dicarboxylic acid (CHEBI:35692) 3-methylmalic acid (CHEBI:25312) is a dicarboxylic fatty acid (CHEBI:189840) 3-methylmalic acid (CHEBI:25312) is conjugate acid of 3-methylmalate(2−) (CHEBI:87810)

Incoming	erythro-3-methylmalic acid (CHEBI:23948) is a 3-methylmalic acid (CHEBI:25312) threo-3-methylmalic acid (CHEBI:26982) is a 3-methylmalic acid (CHEBI:25312) 3-methylmalate(2−) (CHEBI:87810) is conjugate base of 3-methylmalic acid (CHEBI:25312)

IUPAC Name

2-hydroxy-3-methylbutanedioic acid

Synonyms	Sources
2-hydroxy-3-methylsuccinic acid	ChEBI
β-methylmalate	ChemIDplus

Last Modified

24 February 2022