GO Term : GO:0008431 vitamin E binding GO

Namespace:  molecular_function Obsolete:  false
description  Interacting selectively and non-covalently with vitamin E, tocopherol, which includes a series of eight structurally similar compounds. Alpha-tocopherol is the most active form in humans and is a powerful biological antioxidant.

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1 Ontology

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GO

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7 Parents

Identifier Name Description
GO:0005488 binding The selective, non-covalent, often stoichiometric, interaction of a molecule with one or more specific sites on another molecule.
GO:0036094 small molecule binding Interacting selectively and non-covalently with a small molecule, any low molecular weight, monomeric, non-encoded molecule.
GO:0003674 molecular_function Elemental activities, such as catalysis or binding, describing the actions of a gene product at the molecular level. A given gene product may exhibit one or more molecular functions.
GO:1901363 heterocyclic compound binding Interacting selectively and non-covalently with heterocyclic compound.
GO:0097159 organic cyclic compound binding Interacting selectively and non-covalently with an organic cyclic compound, any molecular entity that contains carbon arranged in a cyclic molecular structure.
GO:0019842 vitamin binding Interacting selectively and non-covalently with a vitamin, one of a number of unrelated organic substances that occur in many foods in small amounts and that are necessary in trace amounts for the normal metabolic functioning of the body.
GO:0008431 vitamin E binding Interacting selectively and non-covalently with vitamin E, tocopherol, which includes a series of eight structurally similar compounds. Alpha-tocopherol is the most active form in humans and is a powerful biological antioxidant.

6 Relations

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Parent Term . Identifier

Child Term . Identifier
is_a GO:0097159 GO:0008431
is_a GO:0019842 GO:0008431
is_a GO:1901363 GO:0008431
is_a GO:0036094 GO:0008431
is_a GO:0005488 GO:0008431
is_a GO:0003674 GO:0008431

2 Synonyms

Name Type
tocopherol binding synonym
alpha-tocopherol binding synonym