Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Organic Chemicals > Organophosphorus Compounds > Organophosphates > Carbamyl Phosphate
Organic Chemicals > Carboxylic Acids > Acids, Acyclic > Carbamates > Carbamyl Phosphate

Preferred term

Carbamyl Phosphate  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Carbamoyl Phosphate
  • Phosphate, Carbamoyl

Scope note

  • The monoanhydride of carbamic acid with PHOSPHORIC ACID. It is an important intermediate metabolite and is synthesized enzymatically by CARBAMYL-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (AMMONIA) and CARBAMOYL-PHOSPHATE SYNTHASE (GLUTAMINE-HYDROLYZING).

History note

  • 91(75); was see under CARBAMATES 1975-90

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002221

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 11/19/74, last modified 7/3/12