Aspartate

CHEBI:29995 chemically defined MAPPED CHEBI SYNONYM_MATCH

Ontology mapping

Primary identifier
CHEBI:29995
Ontology label
aspartate(2-)

Chemical properties

Molecular formula
C4H5NO4
Smiles
NC(CC(=O)[O-])C(=O)[O-]
Inchi
InChI=1S/C4H7NO4/c5-2(4(8)9)1-3(6)7/h2H,1,5H2,(H,6,7)(H,8,9)/p-2
Molecular weight
131.087
Data source
ChEBI+PubChem
Retrieval date
2026-08-13T04:25:25.555967+00:00

Evidence (2)

LEXICAL_MATCH via microbedecoder

Imported from microbedecoder via ols-label-exact-chebi. source_id=kgmicrobe.trait:aspartate;

DATABASE_MATCH via MIM curation (#319)

Re-grounded CHEBI:132943 -> CHEBI:29995. CHEBI:132943 is the charge-agnostic parent whose children are aspartate(2-) and aspartate(1-), so a bare label sitting on it declines to state a protonation state. The sibling record Glutamate — same amino-acid family, same bare-label form, same import — is on CHEBI:29987 glutamate(2-), and 30 other bare -ate labels in this corpus are likewise on charged terms. Both terms are stereo-agnostic, so no stereochemical claim is added; 'aspartate' is a ChEBI synonym of CHEBI:29995, so the lexical evidence survives. Counter-argument on record: MAPPING_SEMANTICS §3 step 4 would keep an evidence-free under-specified label on the parent, and Malate (same hierarchy shape) does exactly that — §3 does not address protonation, which #319 tracks.

Occurrence statistics

Total occurrences
12
Distinct media
12
Source occurrences
  • Source
    microbedecoder
    Count
    431
    Source columns
    BacDive_Metabolite_utilization

Curation history

TimestampCuratorActionNew statusChanges
2026-08-04T02:54:09.684805+00:00 audit_import_ingredients[microbedecoder] CREATED_FROM_INGREDIENT_IMPORT MAPPED Imported from microbedecoder via ols-label-exact-chebi. source_id=kgmicrobe.trait:aspartate;
2026-08-04T03:08:34.142678+00:00 microbedecoder-import-review LLM FLAGGED_FOR_REVIEW mapping_status MAPPED -> PENDING_REVIEW
2026-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 review-ingredients LLM REVIEWED_AND_PROMOTED MAPPED mapping_status PENDING_REVIEW -> MAPPED
2026-08-10T00:00:00+00:00 reground_aspartate REGROUNDED_CHARGE_STATE identifier/ontology_id CHEBI:132943 -> CHEBI:29995; ontology_label 'aspartate' -> 'aspartate(2-)'; mapping_quality -> SYNONYM_MATCH (#319).
2026-08-13T00:00:00+00:00 classify_ingredient_type AUTO_CLASSIFY_INGREDIENT_TYPE set ingredient_type=SINGLE_INGREDIENT (CHEBI primary with a structural definition) (#323)
2026-08-27T03:16:39.520207+00:00 refresh_occurrence_statistics CORRECTED occurrence_statistics 0/0 -> 12/12 (media_count/total_occurrences), derived from distinct CultureMech recipe ids in the #337 occurrence table. The prior values came from the importer retired in #453, whose media_count counted a list truncated to 50 examples (#449). [source=ingredient_occurrences.tsv culturemech_rev=15a4da5c08 rows=194137 distinct_recipes=15257]