CHEBI:28815 - heparan sulfate

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ChEBI Name heparan sulfate
ChEBI ID CHEBI:28815
Definition A linear polysaccharide in which the backbone consists of a variably sulfated repeating disaccharide unit.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Secondary ChEBI IDs CHEBI:24502, CHEBI:24507, CHEBI:5661
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Formula (C12H19NO20S3)n
Net Charge 0
Metabolite of Species Details
Mus musculus (NCBI:txid10090) Source: BioModels - MODEL1507180067 See: PubMed
Homo sapiens (NCBI:txid9606) See: DOI
Roles Classification
Biological Role(s): human metabolite
Any mammalian metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in humans (Homo sapiens).
mouse metabolite
Any mammalian metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in a mouse (Mus musculus).
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ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing heparan sulfate (CHEBI:28815) has role human metabolite (CHEBI:77746)
heparan sulfate (CHEBI:28815) has role mouse metabolite (CHEBI:75771)
heparan sulfate (CHEBI:28815) is a heparan sulfates (CHEBI:35721)
heparan sulfate (CHEBI:28815) is conjugate acid of heparan sulfate polyanion (CHEBI:157750)
Incoming heparan sulfate proteoglycan (CHEBI:24499) has part heparan sulfate (CHEBI:28815)
heparan sulfate polyanion (CHEBI:157750) is conjugate base of heparan sulfate (CHEBI:28815)
Synonyms Sources
Heparan N-sulfate ChemIDplus
Heparan sulfate KEGG COMPOUND
Heparan sulphate ChemIDplus
Heparatan sulfate ChemIDplus
Heparin monosulfate KEGG COMPOUND
Heparin sulfate KEGG COMPOUND
Heparitin monosulfate ChemIDplus
Heparitin sulfate KEGG COMPOUND
N-Acetylheparan sulfate ChemIDplus
Manual Xrefs Databases
C00925 KEGG COMPOUND
D08536 KEGG DRUG
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Registry Numbers Types Sources
8186767 Beilstein Registry Number Beilstein
9050-30-0 CAS Registry Number KEGG COMPOUND
9050-30-0 CAS Registry Number ChemIDplus
Citation Type Source
8713797 PubMed citation Europe PMC
Last Modified
21 February 2025
General Comment
2010-10-29 The structure of heparan sulfate is representative and shows the most common repeating unit, which is variably sulfated.