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taurocholic acid   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 4547

Abbreviated name: TCA
Synonyms: taurocholate
PDB Ligand
Compound class: Metabolite

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2D Structure
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2D Structure

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Physico-chemical Properties
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Physico-chemical Properties

Calculated molecular properties are available for small molecules and natural products (not peptides). Properties were generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/). All properties were selected to enable the prediction of the Lipinski Rule-of-Five profile or ‘druglikeness’ for each ligand. For more info on each category see the help pages.

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Hydrogen bond acceptors 8
Hydrogen bond donors 5
Rotatable bonds 8
Topological polar surface area 152.54
Molecular weight 515.29
XLogP 2.77
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0

Generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/)
SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey

SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification) A specification for unambiguously describing the structure of chemical molecules using short ASCII strings. Canonical SMILES specify a unique representation of the 2D structure without chiral or isotopic specifications. Isomeric SMILES include chiral specification and isotopes.

Standard InChI (IUPAC International Chemical Identifier) and InChIKey InChI is a non-proprietary, standard, textual identifier for chemical substances designed to facilitate linking of information and database searching. An InChIKey is a simplified version of a full InChI, designed for easier web searching.

Generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/)

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Canonical SMILES OC1CCC2(C(C1)CC(C1C2CC(O)C2(C1CCC2C(CCC(=O)NCCS(=O)(=O)O)C)C)O)C
Isomeric SMILES O[C@@H]1CC[C@]2([C@@H](C1)C[C@H]([C@@H]1[C@@H]2C[C@H](O)[C@]2([C@H]1CC[C@@H]2[C@@H](CCC(=O)NCCS(=O)(=O)O)C)C)O)C
InChI InChI=1S/C26H45NO7S/c1-15(4-7-23(31)27-10-11-35(32,33)34)18-5-6-19-24-20(14-22(30)26(18,19)3)25(2)9-8-17(28)12-16(25)13-21(24)29/h15-22,24,28-30H,4-14H2,1-3H3,(H,27,31)(H,32,33,34)/t15-,16+,17-,18-,19+,20+,21-,22+,24+,25+,26-/m1/s1
InChI Key WBWWGRHZICKQGZ-HZAMXZRMSA-N

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Transporters Moving this Compound Across a Lipid Membrane
Transporter EC number Reaction Reference
SLC22A24 3
Sodium/bile acid and sulphated solute cotransporter 1 2
Sodium/bile acid and sulphated solute cotransporter 2 1
Selectivity at transporters
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Target Sp. Type Action Value Parameter Concentration range (M) Reference
OATP1C1 Hs Inhibitor Inhibition - - -
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Additional information and targets (data relate to human unless otherwise stated)
Description Data Reference
Substrates at Sodium/bile acid and sulphated solute cotransporter 2 glycodeoxycholic acid > glycoursodeoxycholic acid, glycochenodeoxycholic acid > taurocholic acid > cholic acid 1
Endogenous substrates at Sodium/bile acid and sulphated solute cotransporter 1 tauroursodeoxycholic acid, taurocholic acid, taurochenodeoxycholic acid > glycocholic acid > cholic acid 2
Ligand mentioned in the following text fields
SLC10 family of sodium-bile acid co-transporters comments