Flashcards: Tetrapyrroles

F430 is the prosthetic group of the enzyme methyl coenzyme M reductase.

Stercobilinogen (fecal urobilinogen) is a chemical created by bacteria in the gut.

Phycoerythrobilin is a red phycobilin, i.

Bilirubin (formerly referred to as haematoidin) is a yellow compound that occurs in the normal catabolic pathway that breaks down heme in vertebrates.

Chlorophyll b is a form of chlorophyll.

Tetraphenylporphyrin, abbreviated TPP or H2TPP, is a synthetic heterocyclic compound that resembles naturally occurring porphyrins.

In organic chemistry, a chlorin is a large heterocyclic aromatic ring consisting, at the core, of three pyrroles and one pyrroline coupled through four =CH- linkages.

Chlorophyll f is a type form of chlorophyll that absorbs further in the red (infrared light) than other chlorophylls.

Chlorophyll a is a specific form of chlorophyll used in oxygenic photosynthesis.

Phycourobilin is a tetrapyrrole orange molecule involved in photosynthesis in cyanobacteria and red algae.

Porphyrins are a group of heterocyclic macrocycle organic compounds, composed of four modified pyrrole subunits interconnected at their α carbon atoms via methine bridges (=CH−).

Corrin is an heterocyclic compound.

Hematoporphyrin (Photodyn, Sensibion) is an endogenous porphyrin formed by the acid hydrolysis of hemoglobin.

Urobilin or urochrome is the chemical primarily responsible for the yellow color of urine.

Methylcobalamin (mecobalamin, MeCbl, or MeB12) is a cobalamin, a form of vitamin B12.

Biliverdin is a green tetrapyrrolic bile pigment, and is a product of heme catabolism.

Chlorophyll d is a form of chlorophyll, identified by Harold Strain and Winston Manning in 1943.

Hydroxocobalamin (also hydroxycobalamin, OHCbl, or B12a) is a natural form, or vitamer, of vitamin B12.

Phycocyanobilin is a blue phycobilin, i.

Zinc protoporphyrin (ZPP) is a compound found in red blood cells when heme production is inhibited by lead and/or by lack of iron.

Chlorophyllin refers to any one of a group of closely related water-soluble salts that are semi-synthetic derivatives of chlorophyll, differing in the identity of the cations associated with the anion.

Pheophorbide a is the product of chlorophyll breakdown.

Stercobilin is a tetrapyrrolic bile pigment and is one end-product of heme catabolism.

Heme C (or haem C) is an important kind of heme.

Heme O (or haem O) differs from the closely related heme A by having a methyl group at ring position 8 instead of the formyl group.

Heme B or haem B (also known as protoheme IX) is the most abundant heme.

Heme A (or haem A) is a heme, a coordination complex consisting of a macrocyclic ligand called a porphyrin, chelating an iron atom.

Cobamamide (AdoCbl), which is also known as adenosylcobalamin and dibencozide, is, along with methylcobalamin (MeCbl), one of the active forms of vitamin B12.

Coproporphyrinogen I is a tetrapyrrole which accumulates in acute intermittent porphyria.

In the metabolism of porphyrin, the enzyme uroporphyrinogen III decarboxylase generates coproporphyrinogen III from uroporphyrinogen III, and coproporphyrinogen III oxidase converts it into protoporphyrinogen IX.

Hydroxymethylbilane (HMB), also known as preuroporphyrinogen, is a molecule involved in the metabolism of porphyrin.

Protoporphyrinogen IX is a precursor for protoporphyrin IX.

Protoporphyrin IX, in the metabolism of porphyrin, is created by the enzyme protoporphyrinogen oxidase.

Uroporphyrinogen III is the first cyclic metabolic intermediate in the biosynthesis of heme.

Uroporphyrinogen I is a tetrapyrrole that is produced in lesser quantities in acute intermittent porphyria.

Urobilinogen is a colourless by-product of bilirubin reduction.

Porphin, sometimes spelled porphine, is the parent chemical compound for types of biochemically significant compounds called porphyrins.

Temoporfin (INN) is a photosensitizer (based on chlorin) used in photodynamic therapy for the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

XF-73 (Exeporfinium chloride) is an experimental drug candidate.

2-(1-Hexyloxyethyl)-2-devinyl pyropheophorbide-a (HPPH) is a photosensitiser chemical that is used in photodynamic therapy.

Motexafin lutetium is a texaphyrin, marketed as Antrin by Pharmacyclics Inc.

Talaporfin (INN, also known as aspartyl chlorin, mono-L-aspartyl chlorin e6, NPe6, or LS11) is a photosensitizer used in photodynamic therapy (PDT).

Tetraphenylporphine sulfonate is a trypanocidal agent.

4,7-Dihydroisoindole in heterocyclic chemistry is a reduced form of isoindole.

Cobalamin may refer to several chemical forms of vitamin B12, depending on the upper axial ligand of the cobalt ion.

Porphyrazines, or tetraazaporphyrins, are tetrapyrrole macrocycles similar to porphyrins and phthalocyanines.

Isocoproporphyrin is a tetrapyrrole.