CHEBI:15356 - cysteine

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ChEBI Name cysteine
ChEBI ID CHEBI:15356
Definition A sulfur-containing amino acid that is propanoic acid with an amino group at position 2 and a sulfanyl group at position 3.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Secondary ChEBI IDs CHEBI:23508, CHEBI:4050, CHEBI:14061
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Formula C3H7NO2S
Net Charge 0
Average Mass 121.15922
Monoisotopic Mass 121.01975
InChI InChI=1S/C3H7NO2S/c4-2(1-7)3(5)6/h2,7H,1,4H2,(H,5,6)
InChIKey XUJNEKJLAYXESH-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES NC(CS)C(O)=O
Metabolite of Species Details
Mus musculus (NCBI:txid10090) See: PubMed
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (NCBI:txid3055) See: PubMed
Daphnia magna (NCBI:txid35525) See: PubMed
Arabidopsis thaliana (NCBI:txid3702) See: PubMed
Homo sapiens (NCBI:txid9606) See: PubMed
Roles Classification
Chemical Role(s): Bronsted base
A molecular entity capable of accepting a hydron from a donor (Bronsted acid).
(via organic amino compound )
Bronsted acid
A molecular entity capable of donating a hydron to an acceptor (Bronsted base).
(via oxoacid )
Biological Role(s): fundamental metabolite
Any metabolite produced by all living cells.
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ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing cysteine (CHEBI:15356) has part sulfanylmethyl group (CHEBI:50326)
cysteine (CHEBI:15356) has role fundamental metabolite (CHEBI:78675)
cysteine (CHEBI:15356) is a α-amino acid (CHEBI:33704)
cysteine (CHEBI:15356) is a polar amino acid (CHEBI:26167)
cysteine (CHEBI:15356) is a sulfur-containing amino acid (CHEBI:26834)
cysteine (CHEBI:15356) is conjugate acid of cysteinate(1−) (CHEBI:32456)
cysteine (CHEBI:15356) is conjugate base of cysteinium (CHEBI:32458)
cysteine (CHEBI:15356) is tautomer of cysteine zwitterion (CHEBI:35237)
Incoming γGluCys(IAN)Glu (CHEBI:64978) has functional parent cysteine (CHEBI:15356)
Se-L-selenocysteine-S-L-cysteine residue (CHEBI:142235) has functional parent cysteine (CHEBI:15356)
cysteine derivative (CHEBI:23509) has functional parent cysteine (CHEBI:15356)
cysteinyl radical (CHEBI:32740) has functional parent cysteine (CHEBI:15356)
D-cysteine (CHEBI:16375) is a cysteine (CHEBI:15356)
L-cysteine (CHEBI:17561) is a cysteine (CHEBI:15356)
cysteinium (CHEBI:32458) is conjugate acid of cysteine (CHEBI:15356)
cysteinate(1−) (CHEBI:32456) is conjugate base of cysteine (CHEBI:15356)
cystein-S-yl group (CHEBI:32795) is substituent group from cysteine (CHEBI:15356)
cysteine residue (CHEBI:32460) is substituent group from cysteine (CHEBI:15356)
cysteino group (CHEBI:32459) is substituent group from cysteine (CHEBI:15356)
cysteinyl group (CHEBI:23511) is substituent group from cysteine (CHEBI:15356)
cysteine zwitterion (CHEBI:35237) is tautomer of cysteine (CHEBI:15356)
IUPAC Name
cysteine
Synonyms Sources
2-amino-3-mercaptopropanoic acid JCBN
2-Amino-3-mercaptopropionic acid KEGG COMPOUND
2-amino-3-sulfanylpropanoic acid IUPAC
C ChEBI
cisteína ChEBI
Cys ChEBI
Cystein ChEBI
Cysteine KEGG COMPOUND
cystéine ChEBI
Hcys IUPAC
Zystein ChEBI
Manual Xrefs Databases
C00001351 KNApSAcK
C00007323 KNApSAcK
C00736 KEGG COMPOUND
Cysteine Wikipedia
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Registry Numbers Types Sources
1721406 Beilstein Registry Number Beilstein
1721406 Reaxys Registry Number Reaxys
2933 Gmelin Registry Number Gmelin
3374-22-9 CAS Registry Number ChemIDplus
3374-22-9 CAS Registry Number NIST Chemistry WebBook
Citations Waiting for Citations Types Sources
17439666 PubMed citation Europe PMC
25181601 PubMed citation Europe PMC
Last Modified
06 July 2021