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CHEBI ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.

Term:signalling molecule
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Accession:CHEBI:62488 term browser browse the term
Definition:A molecular messenger in which the molecule is specifically involved in transmitting information between cells. Such molecules are released from the cell sending the signal, cross over the gap between cells by diffusion, and interact with specific receptors in another cell, triggering a response in that cell by activating a series of enzyme controlled reactions which lead to changes inside the cell.
Synonyms:related_synonym: signal molecule;   signal molecules;   signaling molecule;   signaling molecules;   signalling molecules



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      CHEBI ontology 19844
        role 19820
          biological role 19818
            molecular messenger 18644
              signalling molecule 10565
                1-(3,5-dichloro-2,6-dihydroxy-4-methoxyphenyl)hexan-1-one 0
                1-(3,5-dichloro-2,6-dihydroxy-4-methoxyphenyl)pentan-1-one 0
                2'-phospho-cyclic ADP-ribose 0
                2-heptyl-3-hydroxy-4-quinolone 0
                2-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline 0
                2-heptyl-4-quinolone 0
                3',5'-cyclic UMP 87
                8-nitroguanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate 0
                N-(4-coumaroyl)-L-homoserine lactone 0
                N-arachidonoylserotonin 0
                N-isovaleryl-L-homoserine lactone 0
                S-nitrosoglutathione 33
                all-trans-retinoic acid + 9933
                autoinducer + 5
                c-di-GMP 1
                carbon monoxide 101
                farnesoic acid + 1
                gamma-aminobutyric acid + 161
                hydrogen sulfide + 2087
                myo-inositol hexakisphosphate 56
                nicotinic acid-adenine dinucleotide phosphate 5
                nitric oxide 321
                specialised pro-resolving mediator + 46
                sphingosine 1-phosphate 55
                thionitrous acid 0
                tropodithietic acid 0
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