CHEBI:18237 - glutamic acid

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ChEBI Name glutamic acid
ChEBI ID CHEBI:18237
Definition An α-amino acid that is glutaric acid bearing a single amino substituent at position 2.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Secondary ChEBI IDs CHEBI:24314, CHEBI:5431
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Formula C5H9NO4
Net Charge 0
Average Mass 147.12930
Monoisotopic Mass 147.05316
InChI InChI=1S/C5H9NO4/c6-3(5(9)10)1-2-4(7)8/h3H,1-2,6H2,(H,7,8)(H,9,10)
InChIKey WHUUTDBJXJRKMK-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES NC(CCC(O)=O)C(O)=O
Metabolite of Species Details
Mus musculus (NCBI:txid10090) Source: BioModels - MODEL1507180067 See: PubMed
Daphnia magna (NCBI:txid35525) See: Mixtures of similarly acting compounds in Daphnia magna: From gene to metabolite and beyondTine Vandenbrouck, Oliver A.H. Jones, Nathalie Dom, Julian L. Griffin, Wim De CoenEnvironment International 36 (2010) 254-268
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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Outgoing glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237) has part 2-carboxyethyl group (CHEBI:50329)
glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237) has role fundamental metabolite (CHEBI:78675)
glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237) is a α-amino acid (CHEBI:33704)
glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237) is a polar amino acid (CHEBI:26167)
glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237) is conjugate acid of glutamate(1−) (CHEBI:14321)
Incoming γ-Glu-Leu (CHEBI:68433) has functional parent glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237)
γ-glutamyl-Se-methylselenocysteine (CHEBI:28776) has functional parent glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237)
γ-glutamylphenylalanine (CHEBI:82966) has functional parent glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237)
γ-glutamylthreonine (CHEBI:82968) has functional parent glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237)
γGluCys(IAN)Glu (CHEBI:64978) has functional parent glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237)
glutamic acid derivative (CHEBI:24315) has functional parent glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237)
D-glutamic acid (CHEBI:15966) is a glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237)
L-glutamic acid (CHEBI:16015) is a glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237)
glutamate(1−) (CHEBI:14321) is conjugate base of glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237)
α-glutamyl group (CHEBI:22453) is substituent group from glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237)
γ-glutamyl group (CHEBI:24190) is substituent group from glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237)
glutamic acid residue (CHEBI:32483) is substituent group from glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237)
glutamo group (CHEBI:24321) is substituent group from glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237)
glutamoyl group (CHEBI:24322) is substituent group from glutamic acid (CHEBI:18237)
IUPAC Names
2-aminopentanedioic acid
glutamic acid
Synonyms Sources
2-Aminoglutaric acid KEGG COMPOUND
DL-Glutamic acid KEGG DRUG
DL-Glutaminic acid KEGG COMPOUND
E ChEBI
Glu ChEBI
Glutamate KEGG COMPOUND
Glutamic acid KEGG COMPOUND
Glutaminic acid KEGG COMPOUND
Glutaminsäure ChEBI
Manual Xrefs Databases
C00001358 KNApSAcK
C00019577 KNApSAcK
C00302 KEGG COMPOUND
D04341 KEGG DRUG
Glutamic_acid Wikipedia
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Registry Numbers Types Sources
101971 Gmelin Registry Number Gmelin
1723799 Reaxys Registry Number Reaxys
617-65-2 CAS Registry Number ChemIDplus
617-65-2 CAS Registry Number NIST Chemistry WebBook
Citations Waiting for Citations Types Sources
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