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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:malic acid
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Accession:CHEBI:6650 term browser browse the term
Definition:A 2-hydroxydicarboxylic acid that is succinic acid in which one of the hydrogens attached to a carbon is replaced by a hydroxy group.
Synonyms:related_synonym: 2-Hydroxybutanedioic acid;   2-Hydroxyethane-1,2-dicarboxylic acid;   2-Hydroxysuccinic acid;   Aepfelsaeure;   DL-Malic acid;   E296;   Formula=C4H6O5;   H2mal;   InChI=1S/C4H6O5/c5-2(4(8)9)1-3(6)7/h2,5H,1H2,(H,6,7)(H,8,9);   InChIKey=BJEPYKJPYRNKOW-UHFFFAOYSA-N;   SMILES=OC(CC(O)=O)C(O)=O;   alpha-hydroxysuccinic acid;   apple acid;   hydroxybutanedioic acid;   hydroxysuccinic acid
 xref: Beilstein:1723539;   CAS:6915-15-7;   Gmelin:3325;   HMDB:HMDB0000744;   KEGG:C00711;   KEGG:D04843
 xref_mesh: MESH:C030298
 xref: MetaCyc:RS-Malate;   PMID:15767321;   PMID:17190852;   PMID:17439666;   PMID:17896933;   PMID:19743855;   PMID:22411507;   PPDB:1352;   Reaxys:1723539;   Wikipedia:Malic_acid
 cyclic_relationship: is_conjugate_acid_of CHEBI:15595;   is_conjugate_acid_of CHEBI:25115


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  CHEBI ontology 0
    role 0
      application 0
        food additive 0
          food acidity regulator 0
            malic acid 0
              (R)-malic acid + 0
              (S)-malic acid + 0
              2,3-dimethylmalic acid + 0
              2-(omega-methylthio)alkylmalic acid + 0
              2-(p-coumaroyl)malic acid 0
              2-hydroxy-3-(2-methylidenecyclopropyl)butanedioic acid 0
              2-phosphinomethylmalic acid 0
              3-(omega-methylthio)alkylmalic acid + 0
              3-carboxy-3-hydroxypropanoyl-CoA 0
              malate ester + 0
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    subatomic particle 0
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                  main group element atom 0
                    p-block element atom 0
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                                  carbonyl compound 0
                                    dicarboxylic acids and O-substituted derivatives 0
                                      dicarboxylic acid 0
                                        alpha,omega-dicarboxylic acid 0
                                          succinic acid 0
                                            malic acid 0
                                              (R)-malic acid + 0
                                              (S)-malic acid + 0
                                              2,3-dimethylmalic acid + 0
                                              2-(omega-methylthio)alkylmalic acid + 0
                                              2-(p-coumaroyl)malic acid 0
                                              2-hydroxy-3-(2-methylidenecyclopropyl)butanedioic acid 0
                                              2-phosphinomethylmalic acid 0
                                              3-(omega-methylthio)alkylmalic acid + 0
                                              3-carboxy-3-hydroxypropanoyl-CoA 0
                                              malate ester + 0
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