CHEBI:17750 - glycine betaine

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ChEBI Name glycine betaine
ChEBI ID CHEBI:17750
Definition The amino acid betaine derived from glycine.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Secondary ChEBI IDs CHEBI:3073, CHEBI:13895, CHEBI:24370, CHEBI:27128, CHEBI:22858, CHEBI:29050, CHEBI:15264
Supplier Information ChemicalBook:CB4451354, eMolecules:474983, ZINC000004228232
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S-Adenosyl-L-homocysteine (SAH) is the biosynthetic precursor to homocysteine. SAH is formed by the demethylation of S-adenosyl-L-methionine. Adenosylhomocysteinase converts SAH into homocysteine and adenosine.
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Formula C5H11NO2
Net Charge 0
Average Mass 117.14638
Monoisotopic Mass 117.07898
InChI InChI=1S/C5H11NO2/c1-6(2,3)4-5(7)8/h4H2,1-3H3
InChIKey KWIUHFFTVRNATP-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES C[N+](C)(C)CC([O-])=O
Metabolite of Species Details
Mus musculus (NCBI:txid10090) Source: BioModels - MODEL1507180067 See: PubMed
Escherichia coli (NCBI:txid562) See: PubMed
Homo sapiens (NCBI:txid9606) See: DOI
Homo sapiens (NCBI:txid9606) Found in human blood serum samples. See: MetaboLights Study
Roles Classification
Biological Role(s): fundamental metabolite
Any metabolite produced by all living cells.
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ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing glycine betaine (CHEBI:17750) has role fundamental metabolite (CHEBI:78675)
glycine betaine (CHEBI:17750) is a amino-acid betaine (CHEBI:22860)
glycine betaine (CHEBI:17750) is a glycine derivative (CHEBI:24373)
glycine betaine (CHEBI:17750) is conjugate base of N,N,N-trimethylglycinium (CHEBI:41139)
Incoming N,N,N-trimethylglycyl-CoA (CHEBI:85888) has functional parent glycine betaine (CHEBI:17750)
N,N,N-trimethylglycinium (CHEBI:41139) is conjugate acid of glycine betaine (CHEBI:17750)
IUPAC Name
(trimethylammonio)acetate
Synonyms Sources
(trimethylammoniumyl)acetate IUPAC
1-carboxy-N,N,N-trimethylmethanaminium inner salt NIST Chemistry WebBook
2-N,N,N-trimethylammonio acetate ChEBI
abromine ChemIDplus
acidol ChEBI
Bet ChEBI
Betaine KEGG COMPOUND
glycine betaine UniProt
Glycine betaine KEGG COMPOUND
N,N,N-trimethylammonioacetate IUPAC
N,N,N-Trimethylglycine KEGG COMPOUND
Trimethylaminoacetate KEGG COMPOUND
Trimethylammonioacetate KEGG COMPOUND
trimethylglycine ChEBI
trimethylglycocoll ChemIDplus
Manual Xrefs Databases
347 DrugCentral
BET PDBeChem
BETAINE MetaCyc
C00007291 KNApSAcK
C00719 KEGG COMPOUND
D07523 KEGG DRUG
HMDB0000043 HMDB
Trimethylglycine Wikipedia
YMDB01516 YMDB
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Registry Numbers Types Sources
107-43-7 CAS Registry Number KEGG COMPOUND
107-43-7 CAS Registry Number ChemIDplus
107-43-7 CAS Registry Number NIST Chemistry WebBook
26434 Gmelin Registry Number Gmelin
3537113 Reaxys Registry Number Reaxys
Citations Types Sources
16197300 PubMed citation Europe PMC
18326594 PubMed citation Europe PMC
20346934 PubMed citation Europe PMC
20446114 PubMed citation Europe PMC
20642826 PubMed citation Europe PMC
22770225 PubMed citation Europe PMC
Last Modified
18 April 2024
General Comment
2011-04-27 A metabolite of choline.