"Tetrapyrroles" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Four PYRROLES joined by one-carbon units linking position 2 of one to position 5 of the next. The conjugated bond system results in PIGMENTATION.
| Descriptor ID |
D045725
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.129.578.840 D03.633.400.909 D04.345.783
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Synthetic biology: engineering Escherichia coli to see light. Nature. 2005 Nov 24; 438(7067):441-2.