homocystine (CHEBI:17485)

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ChEBI Name	homocystine

ChEBI ID	CHEBI:17485

Definition	An organic disulfide obtained by oxidative dimerisation of homocysteine.

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

Secondary ChEBI IDs	CHEBI:14409, CHEBI:5752, CHEBI:24611

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Formula

C8H16N2O4S2

Net Charge

Average Mass

268.356

Monoisotopic Mass

268.05515

InChI

InChI=1S/C8H16N2O4S2/c9-5(7(11)12)1-3-15-16-4-2-6(10)8(13)14/h5-6H,1-4,9-10H2,(H,11,12)(H,13,14)

InChIKey

ZTVZLYBCZNMWCF-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

C(C(CCSSCCC(C(=O)O)N)N)(O)=O

Metabolite of Species	Details
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):	human metabolite Any mammalian metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in humans (Homo sapiens).

ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing	homocystine (CHEBI:17485) has role human metabolite (CHEBI:77746) homocystine (CHEBI:17485) is a homocystines (CHEBI:24612) homocystine (CHEBI:17485) is tautomer of homocystine zwitterion (CHEBI:58163)

Incoming	L,L-homocystine (CHEBI:141698) is a homocystine (CHEBI:17485) homocystine zwitterion (CHEBI:58163) is tautomer of homocystine (CHEBI:17485)

IUPAC Name

4,4'-disulfanediylbis(2-aminobutanoic acid)

Synonyms	Sources
4,4'-dithiobis(2-aminobutyric acid)	ChEBI
4,4'-Dithiobis(2-aminobutyric acid)	KEGG COMPOUND
Homocystine	KEGG COMPOUND

Last Modified

20 August 2018