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H9633

Sigma-Aldrich

L-Homocysteic acid

≥95%

Synonym(s):

L-2-Amino-4-sulfobutyric acid

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C4H9NO5S
CAS Number:
14857-77-3
Molecular Weight:
183.18
MDL number:
MFCD00066018
UNSPSC Code:
12352106
PubChem Substance ID:
24895863
NACRES:
NA.32

Quality Level

200

assay

≥95%
≥98% (TLC)

form

powder

color

white to off-white

application(s)

cell analysis

SMILES string

N[C@@H](CCS(O)(=O)=O)C(O)=O

InChI

1S/C4H9NO5S/c5-3(4(6)7)1-2-11(8,9)10/h3H,1-2,5H2,(H,6,7)(H,8,9,10)/t3-/m0/s1

InChI key

VBOQYPQEPHKASR-VKHMYHEASA-N

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Application

L-Homocysteic acid has been used to study hydrogen peroxide-mediated changes in physiological and pathological conditions in the nervous system.

Biochem/physiol Actions

L-Homocysteic acid (L-HCA) is an endogenous neurotransmitter ligand of NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptors. It is an analog of glutamate and competitively suppresses glutamate-cystine (xc-) antiporter function in neurons, causing decrease in cysteine uptake.

Storage Class

11 - Combustible Solids

wgk_germany

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

Eyeshields, Gloves, type N95 (US)

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M Piraud et al.
Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM, 19(22), 3287-3297 (2005-10-20)
Seventy-six compounds of biological interest for the diagnosis of inherited disorders of amino acids (AA) metabolism have previously been demonstrated to be detectable in positive mode electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS), after separation by ion-pairing reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC).
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The nucleus retroambiguus (NRA) is a neuronal cell group in the medullary ventrolateral tegmentum, rostrocaudally between the obex and the first cervical spinal segment. NRA neurons are premotor interneurons with direct projections to the motoneurons of soft palate, pharynx, and
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J W Olney et al.
Brain research bulletin, 19(5), 597-602 (1987-11-01)
L-Homocysteic acid (L-HCA) has been proposed as a natural transmitter at the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) subtype of excitatory amino acid receptor based on recent evidence that L-HCA occurs L-HCA occurs naturally in the mammalian CNS, is released from K+ stimulated brain
T Knöpfel et al.
Neuroscience letters, 81(1-2), 188-192 (1987-10-16)
The effects of ionophoretically applied L-homocysteate (L-HCA), L-glutamate (L-Glu) and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) were compared in rat neocortical neurons recorded intracellularly in vitro. The firing pattern and the time course of membrane depolarization induced by L-HCA resembled those of NMDA responses.
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