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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:ethidium
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Accession:CHEBI:42478 term browser browse the term
Definition:The fluorescent compound widely used in experimental cell biology and biochemistry to reveal double-stranded DNA and RNA.
Synonyms:related_synonym: 3,8-diamino-5-ethyl-6-phenylphenanthridinium;   Formula=C21H20N3;   InChI=1S/C21H19N3/c1-2-24-20-13-16(23)9-11-18(20)17-10-8-15(22)12-19(17)21(24)14-6-4-3-5-7-14/h3-13,23H,2,22H2,1H3/p+1;   InChIKey=QTANTQQOYSUMLC-UHFFFAOYSA-O;   SMILES=CC[n+]1c(-c2ccccc2)c2cc(N)ccc2c2ccc(N)cc12;   ethidium cation;   homidium
 xref: Beilstein:3627183;   CAS:3546-21-2;   Gmelin:981639
 xref_mesh: MESH:D004996
 xref: PDBeChem:ET



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  CHEBI ontology 5052
    role 5044
      application 863
        dye 3
          fluorescent dye 2
            fluorochrome 1
              ethidium 0
                ethidium bromide 0
                ethidium homodimer 0
                ethidium homodimer tetracation + 0
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  CHEBI ontology 5052
    subatomic particle 5043
      composite particle 5043
        hadron 5071
          baryon 5043
            nucleon 5043
              atomic nucleus 5043
                atom 5043
                  main group element atom 5013
                    p-block element atom 5010
                      carbon group element atom 4927
                        carbon atom 4954
                          organic molecular entity 4926
                            organic molecule 4874
                              organic cyclic compound 4812
                                organic heterocyclic compound 4626
                                  organic heteropolycyclic compound 4424
                                    organic heterotricyclic compound 60
                                      dibenzopyridine 0
                                        phenanthridines 0
                                          phenanthridine 0
                                            ethidium 0
                                              ethidium bromide 0
                                              ethidium homodimer 0
                                              ethidium homodimer tetracation + 0
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