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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:osmolyte
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Accession:CHEBI:25728 term browser browse the term
Definition:A solute used by a cell under water stress to maintain cell volume.
Synonyms:related_synonym: osmolytes



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      CHEBI ontology 19918
        role 19894
          biological role 19892
            osmolyte 3452
              2-O-(alpha-D-glucopyranosyl)glycerol 0
              S,S-dimethyl-beta-propiothetin 0
              compatible osmolytes + 378
              ectoine 0
              glycerol + 3181
              sucrose + 97
              trimethylamine N-oxide 7
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