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Folic acid

Name: Folic acid
Brand: SIGMA

BioReagent, suitable for cell culture, suitable for insect cell culture, suitable for plant cell culture, ≥97%

Synonym(s):

Pterylmonoglutamic acid, PteGlu, Pteroyl-L-glutamic acid, Vitamin M

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):

C₁₉H₁₉N₇O₆

CAS Number:

59-30-3

Molecular Weight:

441.40

NACRES:

NA.75

PubChem Substance ID:

24894973

eCl@ss:

34058014

UNSPSC Code:

12352205

EC Number:

200-419-0

MDL number:

MFCD00079305

Beilstein/REAXYS Number:

100781

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Properties

biological source

synthetic

Quality Level

300

product line

BioReagent

assay

≥97%

form

powder

mol wt

M_w 441.40 g/mol

technique(s)

cell culture | insect: suitable, cell culture | mammalian: suitable, cell culture | plant: suitable

color

dark yellow

solubility

1 M NaOH: soluble 50 mg/mL, clear to very slightly hazy, faintly yellow to dark yellow-orange

storage temp.

room temp

SMILES string

NC(N1)=NC(C2=C1N=CC(CNC3=CC=C(C(N[C@@H](CCC(O)=O)C(O)=O)=O)C=C3)=N2)=O

InChI

1S/C19H19N7O6/c20-19-25-15-14(17(30)26-19)23-11(8-22-15)7-21-10-3-1-9(2-4-10)16(29)24-12(18(31)32)5-6-13(27)28/h1-4,8,12,21H,5-7H2,(H,24,29)(H,27,28)(H,31,32)(H3,20,22,25,26,30)/t12-/m0/s1

InChI key

OVBPIULPVIDEAO-LBPRGKRZSA-N

Description

General description

Folic acid (FA)/pterylmonoglutamic acid helps to block neural tube defects (NTDs).

Application

Folic acid has been used:

to study the role of vitamins and amino acids on hybridoma growth and monoclonal antibody production
in cells and treatments
in perforin gene targeting using the CRISPR/Cas gene editing approach

Biochem/physiol Actions

A nutritional delivery form of folate. Folic acid and its derivatives are essential mediators of one-carbon metabolism within cells.

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Storage Class

11 - Combustible Solids

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WGK 1

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