A cyclic carotene obtained by dimerisation of all-trans-retinol. A strongly-coloured red-orange pigment abundant in plants and fruit and the most active and important provitamin A carotenoid.
Synonyms: beta-Carotene BETA-CAROTENE beta,beta-carotene
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Term information
database
cross reference
- MetaCyc:CPD1F-129
- KNApSAcK:C00000919
- HMDB:HMDB0000561
- KEGG:D03101
- KEGG:C02094
- COMe:MOL000093
- PDBeChem:BCR
- Wikipedia:Beta_Carotene
Subsets
3_STAR
has related synonym
beta-Karotin
all-trans-beta-carotene
1,1'-[(1E,3E,5E,7E,9E,11E,13E,15E,17E)-3,7,12,16-tetramethyloctadeca-1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17-nonaene-1,18-diyl]bis(2,6,6-trimethylcyclohexene)
Term relations
Subclass of:
- cyclic carotene
- carotenoid beta-end derivative
- has role some mouse metabolite
- has role some biological pigment
- has role some cofactor
- has role some provitamin A
- has role some antioxidant
- has role some human metabolite
- has role some ferroptosis inhibitor
- has role some plant metabolite
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