Preferred Name

CHEBI_33234
Synonyms

vitamin E vitamer

vitamin E vitamers

vitamin-E

vitamins E

vitamin E

Definitions

Any member of a group of fat-soluble chromanols that exhibit biological activity against vitamin E deficiency. The vitamers in this class consists of a chroman-6-ol core which is substituted at position 2 by a methyl group and (also at position 2) either a saturated or a triply-unsaturated hydrocarbon chain consisting of three isoprenoid units. The major function of vitamin E is to act as a natural antioxidant by scavenging free radicals and molecular oxygen.

ID

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_33234

bearer of

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_22586

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_24020

has exact synonym

vitamin E

has functional parent

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_78631

has role

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_22586

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_24020

hasOBONamespace

chebi_ontology

hasRelatedSynonym

vitamin E vitamer

vitamin E vitamers

vitamin-E

vitamins E

IAO_0000118

vitamin e

d-alpha-tocopherol

IAO_0000412

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/chebi.owl

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cdno.owl

http://langual.org

id

CHEBI:33234

inSubset

http://purl.oboInOwllibrary.org/oboInOwl/chebi#3_STAR

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/chebi#3_STAR

label

vitamin E

vitamin E

notation

CHEBI:33234

prefLabel

CHEBI_33234

textual definition

Any member of a group of fat-soluble chromanols that exhibit biological activity against vitamin E deficiency. The vitamers in this class consists of a chroman-6-ol core which is substituted at position 2 by a methyl group and (also at position 2) either a saturated or a triply-unsaturated hydrocarbon chain consisting of three isoprenoid units. The major function of vitamin E is to act as a natural antioxidant by scavenging free radicals and molecular oxygen.

xRef

http://www.langual.org/langual_thesaurus.asp?termid=B3784

PMID:7898412

PMID:34277234

MetaCyc:Vitamin-E

PMID:33896432

http://www.langual.org/langual_thesaurus.asp?termid=B3753

PMID:33684201

PMID:34278890

PMID:7901680

Wikipedia:Vitamin_E

PMID:33847203

subClassOf

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CDNO_0000014

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_23229

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_03413751

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