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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:biological role
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Accession:CHEBI:24432 term browser browse the term
Definition:A role played by the molecular entity or part thereof within a biological context.
Synonyms:related_synonym: biological function



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      CHEBI ontology 19918
        role 19894
          biological role 19892
            Grace_C1_2023 0
            activator + 107
            aetiopathogenetic role + 19237
            antigen + 130
            antimicrobial agent + 18166
            antimutagen + 92
            biochemical role + 19588
            biophysical role + 14069
            ceramide mimetic + 0
            epitope + 7036
            fixative + 47
            fluorogen + 0
            glutathione depleting agent + 403
            growth regulator + 8970
            hapten + 3045
            immunomodulator + 15082
            incretin mimetic + 0
            inhibitor + 18953
            insect attractant + 84
            mimotope + 0
            mitogen + 3493
            molecular messenger + 18682
            nodulation factor + 0
            osmolyte + 3452
            pharmacological role + 19111
            physiological role + 19891
            poison + 18652
            prohormone + 11
            provitamin + 278
            sclerotherapy agent + 0
            specialised pro-resolving mediator + 46
            tissue adhesive + 0
            tolerogen + 0
            xenobiotic + 18778
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