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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:sialic acid
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Accession:CHEBI:26667 term browser browse the term
Definition:Any of the N-acylneuraminic acids and their esters and other derivatives of the alcoholic hydroxy groups.
Synonyms:related_synonym: Sialsaeure;   Sialsaeuren;   acide sialique;   acides sialique;   sialic acids
 xref: Wikipedia:Sialic_acid
 cyclic_relationship: is_conjugate_acid_of CHEBI:62944



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  CHEBI ontology 5090
    chemical entity 5090
      atom 5081
        nonmetal atom 5045
          oxygen atom 4921
            oxygen molecular entity 4921
              organooxygen compound 4728
                carbohydrates and carbohydrate derivatives 125
                  carbohydrate derivative 114
                    amino sugar 0
                      neuraminic acids 0
                        sialic acid 0
                          N-acyl-O-acetylneuraminic acid + 0
                          N-acylneuraminic acid + 0
                          alpha-sialoyl group 0
                          beta-sialoyl group 0
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  CHEBI ontology 5090
    subatomic particle 5081
      composite particle 5081
        hadron 5081
          baryon 5081
            nucleon 5081
              atomic nucleus 5081
                atom 5081
                  main group element atom 5051
                    p-block element atom 5048
                      carbon group element atom 4966
                        carbon atom 4965
                          organic molecular entity 4965
                            heteroorganic entity 4805
                              organochalcogen compound 4767
                                organooxygen compound 4728
                                  carbohydrates and carbohydrate derivatives 125
                                    carbohydrate 125
                                      carbohydrate acid 12
                                        ketoaldonic acid 12
                                          ketoaldonic acid derivative 0
                                            neuraminic acids 0
                                              sialic acid 0
                                                N-acyl-O-acetylneuraminic acid + 0
                                                N-acylneuraminic acid + 0
                                                alpha-sialoyl group 0
                                                beta-sialoyl group 0
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