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beta-lysine
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β-Lysine (3,6-diaminohexanoic acid) is an amino acid produced by platelets during coagulation and is directly antibacterial by causing lysis of many Gram positive bacteria by acting as a cationic detergent.
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Within Vinony's link graph, beta-lysine is referenced by 10 other articles, and connects out to biochemistry, antibiotic and amino acid.
Vinony files it under Beta-Amino acids, Chembox image size set and Diamines.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C6H14N2O2
- Molecular weight
- 146.19 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 3,6-diaminohexanoic acid
- SMILES
- C(CC(CC(=O)O)N)CN
- InChIKey
- QKEWQOJCHPFEAF-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- -3.7
- Polar surface area
- 89.3 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 3
- H-bond acceptors
- 4
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- diamine
- Mass
- 146.105528
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- canonical SMILES
- C(CC(CC(=O)O)N)CN
- chemical formula
- C₆H₁₄N₂O₂
- subject has role
- antibiotic
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Encyclopedic overview
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β-Lysine (3,6-diaminohexanoic acid) is an amino acid produced by platelets during coagulation and is directly antibacterial by causing lysis of many Gram positive bacteria by acting as a cationic detergent.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “beta-lysine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.