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Organic Chemicals > Hydrocarbons > Terpenes > Triterpenes > Lanosterol
Lipids > Membrane Lipids > Sterols > Lanosterol
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Cholestanes > Sterols > Lanosterol
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Fused-Ring Compounds > Steroids > Cholestanes > Cholestenes > Cholestadienes > Cholestadienols > Lanosterol

Preferred term

Lanosterol  

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Entry terms

  • 4,4,14 alpha-trimethyl-5 alpha-cholesta-8,24-dien-3 beta-ol
  • Kryptosterol

Scope note

  • A triterpene that derives from the chair-boat-chair-boat folding of 2,3-oxidosqualene. It is metabolized to CHOLESTEROL and CUCURBITACINS.

History note

  • 74(72)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007810

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