"Uroporphyrinogens" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Porphyrinogens which are intermediates in heme biosynthesis. They have four acetic acid and four propionic acid side chains attached to the pyrrole rings. Uroporphyrinogen I and III are formed from polypyrryl methane in the presence of uroporphyrinogen III cosynthetase and uroporphyrin I synthetase, respectively. They can yield uroporphyrins by autooxidation or coproporphyrinogens by decarboxylation.
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D014577
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.129.578.840.500.700.900 D03.633.400.909.500.700.900 D04.345.783.500.700.900
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