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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.
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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 (Br
o
nsted acid).
(via
organic amino compound
)
Bronsted acid
A molecular entity capable of donating a hydron to an acceptor (Br
o
nsted 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
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
Types
Sources
17439666
PubMed citation
Europe PMC
25181601
PubMed citation
Europe PMC
Last Modified
06 July 2021