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DL-ethionine
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Ethionine is a non-proteinogenic amino acid structurally related to methionine, with an ethyl group in place of the methyl group.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C6H13NO2S
- Molecular weight
- 163.24 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 2-amino-4-ethylsulfanylbutanoic acid
- SMILES
- CCSCCC(C(=O)O)N
- InChIKey
- GGLZPLKKBSSKCX-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- -1.5
- Polar surface area
- 88.6 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 2
- H-bond acceptors
- 4
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Mass
- 163.067
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- chemical formula
- C₆H₁₃NO₂S
- canonical SMILES
- CCSCCC(C(=O)O)N
- Commons category
- Ethionine
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Encyclopedic overview
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- References
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Ethionine is a non-proteinogenic amino acid structurally related to methionine, with an ethyl group in place of the methyl group.
Ethionine is an antimetabolite and methionine antagonist. It is a substrate for methionyl-tRNA synthetase and is incorporated into proteins.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “DL-ethionine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.