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carnitine

aminoacid active in mitochondria
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carnitine

Summary

carnitine is a group of stereoisomers[1]. carnitine ranks in the top 5% of group_of_stereoisomers entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,518 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • carnitine's instance of is recorded as group of stereoisomers[3].
  • carnitine's canonical SMILES is recorded as CN+(C)CC(CC(=O)[O-])ON+(C)CC(CC(=O)[O-])O">[4].
  • carnitine's chemical formula is recorded as C₇H₁₅NO₃[5].
  • carnitine is a type of zwitterion[6].
  • carnitine is part of carnitine metabolic process[7].
  • carnitine is part of carnitine biosynthetic process[8].
  • carnitine is part of carnitine transmembrane transport[9].
  • carnitine is part of carnitine transmembrane transporter activity[10].
  • carnitine is part of carnitine transport[11].
  • carnitine is part of carnitine:acyl carnitine antiporter activity[12].
  • carnitine is part of carnitine catabolic process[13].
  • carnitine is part of gamma-butyrobetaine dioxygenase activity[14].
  • carnitine is part of carnitine 3-dehydrogenase activity[15].
  • carnitine is part of carnitine decarboxylase activity[16].
  • carnitine's Commons category is recorded as Carnitine[17].
  • carnitine comprises carbon[18].
  • carnitine comprises L-carnitine[19].
  • carnitine's found in taxon is recorded as house mouse[20].
  • carnitine's found in taxon is recorded as Caenorhabditis elegans[21].
  • carnitine's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[22].
  • carnitine's isomeric SMILES is recorded as CN+(C)CC@HCC([O-])=ON+(C)CC@HCC([O-])=O">[23].
  • carnitine's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q483261', 'amount': '+161.105193'}[24].
  • carnitine's subject has role is recorded as primary metabolite[25].
  • carnitine's pregnancy category is recorded as US pregnancy category B[26].
  • carnitine's conjugate acid is recorded as carnitinium[27].

Why It Matters

carnitine ranks in the top 5% of group_of_stereoisomers entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,518 views/month).[2] carnitine has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] carnitine is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2020-05-02. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2020-05-02. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2020-05-02. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2020-05-02. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2020-05-02. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Betaine supplementation causes increase in carnitine metabolites in the muscle and liver of mice fed a high-fat diet as studied by nontargeted LC-MS metabolomics approach. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Metabotyping of the C. elegans sir-2.1 Mutant Using in Vivo Labeling and 13C-Heteronuclear Multidimensional NMR Metabolomics. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Reactome. reactome.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → zwitterion
    Subject has role → primary metabolite
    Conjugate acid → carnitinium
    Has parts → —
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007543708805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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