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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:N-acyl homoserine lactone
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Definition:A monocarboxylic acid amide resulting from the formal condensation of a carboxylic acid with the amino group of homoserine lactone. A class of autoinducers generally involved in bacterial quorum sensing.
Synonyms:related_synonym: AHLs;   Formula=C5H6NO3R;   N-AHLs;   N-acyl homoserine lactones;   SMILES=[*]C(=O)NC1CCOC1=O
 xref: Wikipedia:N-Acyl_homoserine_lactone


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  CHEBI ontology 0
    role 0
      biological role 0
        molecular messenger 0
          signalling molecule 0
            autoinducer 0
              N-acyl homoserine lactone 0
                N-(3-oxododecanoyl)homoserine lactone + 0
                N-(3-oxohexanoyl)homoserine lactone 0
                N-acyl-L-homoserine lactone + 0
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  CHEBI ontology 0
    subatomic particle 0
      composite particle 0
        hadron 0
          baryon 0
            nucleon 0
              atomic nucleus 0
                atom 0
                  main group element atom 0
                    p-block element atom 0
                      carbon group element atom 0
                        carbon atom 0
                          organic molecular entity 0
                            heteroorganic entity 0
                              organochalcogen compound 0
                                organooxygen compound 0
                                  carbon oxoacid 0
                                    carboxylic acid 0
                                      carboacyl group 0
                                        univalent carboacyl group 0
                                          carbamoyl group 0
                                            carboxamide 0
                                              monocarboxylic acid amide 0
                                                N-acyl homoserine lactone 0
                                                  N-(3-oxododecanoyl)homoserine lactone + 0
                                                  N-(3-oxohexanoyl)homoserine lactone 0
                                                  N-acyl-L-homoserine lactone + 0
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