Compound
(R)-3-hydroxybutyric acid
The R-enantiomer of 3-hydroxybutyric acid. Involved in the synthesis and degradation of ketone bodies, it can be used as an energy source by the brain during hypoglycaemia, and for the synthesis of biodegradable plastics. It is a sex pheremone in the European spider Linyphia triangularis.
Structure
- Class
- Organic compound
- Formula
- C4H8O3
- Mass
- 104.105 g/mol
- Charge
- 0
- InChIKey
- WHBMMWSBFZVSSR-GSVOUGTGSA-N
- SMILES
- C[C@@H](O)CC(=O)O
- Look it up
- ChEBIBy InChIKey
Identity from ChEBI. Not evidence — none of it carries a grade.
What it touches on the way
A finding says (R)-3-hydroxybutyric acid moved an endpoint. This is the biology in between: the proteins and reactions it runs through to get there. It is where to look for the two things a list of findings cannot answer — why a result might happen, and what else acts on the same machinery.
4 of these are proteins with a page of their own, and that is the door: a protein page says what else it carries, which is how one compound leads to the next.
Mechanistic reach
4 entities
4 entities reached, most connected first. Hub metabolites are excluded, so this is not a claim that the compound touches everything.
0 reported hop4 assembled from the scaffold
Where it reaches
3 systems, 5 regions, 6 tissues, 6 transporter routes.
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