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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:(S)-3,4-dihydroxy-2-oxobutanoic acid
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Accession:CHEBI:137456 term browser browse the term
Definition:A ketoaldonic acid that is butyric acid carrying an oxo substituent at position 2 as well as two hydroxy substituents at positions 3 and 4 (the S-enantiomer).
Synonyms:exact_synonym: (3S)-3,4-dihydroxy-2-oxobutanoic acid
 related_synonym: 2-dehydro-L-erythronic acid;   2-dehydro-L-threonic acid;   Formula=C4H6O5;   InChI=1S/C4H6O5/c5-1-2(6)3(7)4(8)9/h2,5-6H,1H2,(H,8,9)/t2-/m0/s1;   InChIKey=CODPBKJMVNZFKR-REOHCLBHSA-N;   SMILES=OC[C@@H](C(C(O)=O)=O)O
 xref: MetaCyc:CPD-19882
 cyclic_relationship: is_conjugate_acid_of CHEBI:136669;   is_enantiomer_of CHEBI:137486



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  CHEBI ontology 5066
    role 5030
      biological role 5030
        biochemical role 4951
          metabolite 4939
            prokaryotic metabolite 371
              bacterial metabolite 371
                Mycoplasma genitalium metabolite 32
                  butyric acid 20
                    (S)-3,4-dihydroxy-2-oxobutanoic acid 0
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  CHEBI ontology 5066
    subatomic particle 5057
      composite particle 5057
        hadron 5057
          baryon 5057
            nucleon 5057
              atomic nucleus 5057
                atom 5057
                  main group element atom 5026
                    p-block element atom 5023
                      carbon group element atom 4940
                        carbon atom 4939
                          organic molecular entity 4939
                            heteroorganic entity 4779
                              organochalcogen compound 4741
                                organooxygen compound 4703
                                  carbon oxoacid 370
                                    carboxylic acid 366
                                      monocarboxylic acid 207
                                        fatty acid 130
                                          short-chain fatty acid 52
                                            fatty acid 4:0 47
                                              butyric acid 20
                                                (S)-3,4-dihydroxy-2-oxobutanoic acid 0
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