An (ω−1)-hydroxy fatty acid ascaroside obtained by formal condensation of the alcoholic hydroxy group of (8R)-8-hydroxynonanoic acid with ascarylopyranose (the α anomer). A metabolite of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, it is the direct biosynthetic precursor to ascr#3. It has also been detected in the sour paste nematode, Panagrellus redivivus.
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This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Absent in daf-22(ok693) but is a major ascaroside detected in wild type (N2) and acox-1(ok2257) mutant C. elegans. Detected in dhs-28(hj8) and maoc-1(hj13) mutant C. elegans
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