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.
The alpha-amino-acid cation formed from carboxyspermidine by zwitterion formation between the carboxy and alpha-amino groups and protonation of the nitrogen atoms at positions 5 and 10; the major structure of carboxyspermidine at pH 7.3.