Term Information

Accession
CHEBI:26214
Name
porphyrins
Ontology
Synonyms
porphyrins
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
Natural pigments containing a fundamental skeleton of four pyrrole nuclei united through the alpha-positions by four methine groups to form a macrocyclic structure. [source: unknown]
Comment
None
Subset
None
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Parents of porphyrins (CHEBI:26214)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
porphyrins [is_a relation] is_a  cyclic tetrapyrrole (CHEBI:36309)
porphyrins [RO:0000087 relation] RO:0000087  cofactor (CHEBI:23357)
Children of porphyrins (CHEBI:26214)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
metalloporphyrin (CHEBI:25216) [is_a relation] is_a  porphyrins
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