CHEBI:35584 - purine

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ChEBI Name purine ChEBI ID CHEBI:35584 Definition A heterobicyclic aromatic organic compound comprising a pyrimidine ring fused to an imidazole ring; the parent compound of the purines. Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team. Formula C5H4N4 Net Charge 0 Average Mass 120.112 Monoisotopic Mass 120.04360 Roles Classification Biological Role(s): fundamental metabolite Any metabolite produced by all living cells. View more via ChEBI Ontology ChEBI Ontology Outgoing purine (CHEBI:35584) has role fundamental metabolite (CHEBI:78675) purine (CHEBI:35584) is a mancude organic heterobicyclic parent (CHEBI:35570) purine (CHEBI:35584) is a purines (CHEBI:26401) Incoming 1H-purine (CHEBI:35586) is a purine (CHEBI:35584) 3H-purine (CHEBI:35588) is a purine (CHEBI:35584) 7H-purine (CHEBI:17258) is a purine (CHEBI:35584) 9H-purine (CHEBI:35589) is a purine (CHEBI:35584) IUPAC Name purine Manual Xrefs Databases C15587 KEGG COMPOUND HMDB0001366 HMDB PURINE MetaCyc View more database links Citations Types Sources 12865945 PubMed citation Europe PMC 24088627 PubMed citation Europe PMC Last Modified 10 June 2014

General Comment 2010-12-21 Four tautomers of this compound exist: 1H-, 3H-, 7H- and 9H-purine.