AmiGO 2: Term Details for "vitamin E binding" (GO:0008431)

Accession: GO:0008431
Name: vitamin E binding
Ontology: molecular_function
Synonyms: tocopherol binding, alpha-tocopherol binding
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Binding to a vitamin E, tocopherol, which includes a series of eight structurally similar compounds. Alpha-tocopherol is the most active form in humans and is a powerful biological antioxidant. Source: ISBN:0721662544
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0008431 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to vitamin E binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to vitamin E binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for vitamin E binding (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
vitamin E binding	is_a	vitamin binding (GO:0019842)
vitamin E binding	is_a	heterocyclic compound binding (GO:1901363)
vitamin E binding	RO:0004009	vitamin E (CHEBI:33234)
vitamin E binding	is_a	organic cyclic compound binding (GO:0097159)

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