CHEBI:29805 - glycolate

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ChEBI Name glycolate
ChEBI ID CHEBI:29805
Definition A hydroxy monocarboxylic acid anion that is acetate where the methyl group has been hydroxylated.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Secondary ChEBI IDs CHEBI:24388, CHEBI:14348
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Formula C2H3O3
Net Charge -1
Average Mass 75.04342
Monoisotopic Mass 75.00877
InChI InChI=1S/C2H4O3/c3-1-2(4)5/h3H,1H2,(H,4,5)/p-1
InChIKey AEMRFAOFKBGASW-UHFFFAOYSA-M
SMILES OCC([O-])=O
Metabolite of Species Details
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (NCBI:txid3055) 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).
algal metabolite
Any eukaryotic metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in algae including unicellular organisms like chlorella and diatoms to multicellular organisms like giant kelps and brown algae.
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ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing glycolate (CHEBI:29805) has functional parent acetate (CHEBI:30089)
glycolate (CHEBI:29805) has role algal metabolite (CHEBI:84735)
glycolate (CHEBI:29805) has role human metabolite (CHEBI:77746)
glycolate (CHEBI:29805) is a hydroxy monocarboxylic acid anion (CHEBI:36059)
glycolate (CHEBI:29805) is conjugate base of glycolic acid (CHEBI:17497)
Incoming thioglycolate(1−) (CHEBI:30066) has functional parent glycolate (CHEBI:29805)
sodium glycolate (CHEBI:132094) has part glycolate (CHEBI:29805)
2-phosphoglycolate (CHEBI:19763) is a glycolate (CHEBI:29805)
glycolic acid (CHEBI:17497) is conjugate acid of glycolate (CHEBI:29805)
IUPAC Name
hydroxyacetate
Synonym Source
glycolate UniProt
Manual Xrefs Databases
c0008 UM-BBD
C00160 KEGG COMPOUND
DB03085 DrugBank
GLYCOLLATE MetaCyc
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Registry Numbers Types Sources
3903689 Reaxys Registry Number Reaxys
666-14-8 CAS Registry Number Reaxys
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Last Modified
31 May 2016