AmiGO 2: Term Details for "quaternary ammonium group binding" (GO:0050997)

Accession: GO:0050997
Name: quaternary ammonium group binding
Ontology: molecular_function
Synonyms: quaternary amine binding
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Binding to a quaternary ammonium group, including glycine betaine, choline, carnitine and proline. A quaternary ammonium group is any compound that can be regarded as derived from ammonium hydroxide or an ammonium salt by replacement of all four hydrogen atoms of the NH4+ ion by organic groups. Source: GOC:ai
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0050997 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to quaternary ammonium group binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to quaternary ammonium group binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for quaternary ammonium group binding (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
quaternary ammonium group binding	RO:0004009	quaternary nitrogen compound (CHEBI:26469)
quaternary ammonium group binding	is_a	small molecule binding (GO:0036094)

subject	relation	object
hydroxyectoine binding (GO:0033295)	is_a	quaternary ammonium group binding
thiamine pyrophosphate binding (GO:0030976)	is_a	quaternary ammonium group binding
phosphatidylcholine binding (GO:0031210)	is_a	quaternary ammonium group binding

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