N-Formimino-L-glutamate (BioCAD00000014673)

feces urine

Metabolite Card

Formula: C6H10N2O4 (174.0641)
SMILES: OC(=O)CC[C@H](NC=N)C(O)=O

Synonyms [en]

N-Formimino-L-glutamate; N-Formimidoyl-L-glutamate; N-formimidoyl-L-glutamic acid; Formimino-l-glutamic acid; Formiminoglutamic Acid; FIGLU

Reviewed

Last reviewed on 2024-06-28.

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N-Formimino-L-glutamate. 数据之源，洞见之始. SMRUCC genomics institute, a synthetic life researcher from China. https://biocad_registry.innovation.ac.cn/s/(-)-arctiin (retrieved 2026-01-03) (CAD Registry RN: BioCAD00000014673). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Note

Measurement of this acid in the urine after oral administration of histidine provides the basis for the diagnostic test of folic acid deficiency and of megaloblastic anemia of pregnancy.

Cytoplasm
Entity Information

DBLinks

Other DBLinks
  • CAS Registry Number: 816-90-0
  • PubChem: 439233
  • ChEBI: ChEBI:18327
  • ChEBI: ChEBI:7274
  • HMDB: HMDB0000854
  • KEGG: C00439
  • NCBI MeSH: Formiminoglutamic Acid
  • Wikipedia: Formiminoglutamic acid
  • Wikipedia: Formiminoglutamic_acid
  • RefMet: RM0136010
  • Metlin: METLIN_335
  • Coconut NaturalProduct: CNP0309925.1

Class / Ontology

Metabolic Network
ID EC Number Name
KEGG:R02285 3.5.3.8 N-formimino-L-glutamate formiminohydrolase
KEGG:R02286 3.5.3.13 N-formimino-L-glutamate iminohydrolase
KEGG:R02287 2.1.2.5 5-formiminotetrahydrofolate:L-glutamate N-formiminotransferase
KEGG:R02288 3.5.2.7 4-imidazolone-5-propanoate amidohydrolase
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Organism Source

Taxonomy Source

Pathway Synthetic

pathway id name
WikiPathways:WP3604 Biochemical pathways: part I
PathBank:SMP0087314 Histidine Metabolism
PathBank:SMP0120713 Histidinemia
PathBank:SMP0120493 Histidinemia
PathBank:SMP0000044 Histidine Metabolism
PathBank:SMP0000191 Histidinemia
PathBank:SMP0087219 Histidine Metabolism
PathBank:SMP0063632 Histidine Metabolism
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