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N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine MeSH Descriptor Data 2025


MeSH Heading
N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine
Tree Number(s)
D02.886.030.676.450.440
D12.125.072.050.685.445
D12.125.142.666.500
D12.125.166.676.450.440
D12.644.456.400
D23.125.685
Unique ID
D009240
RDF Unique Identifier
http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009240
Scope Note
A formylated tripeptide originally isolated from bacterial filtrates that is positively chemotactic to polymorphonuclear leucocytes, and causes them to release lysosomal enzymes and become metabolically activated.
Entry Version
FMLP
Entry Term(s)
F-Met-Leu-Phe
Formylmet-Leu-Phe
Formylmethionyl Peptide
Formylmethionyl-Leucyl-Phenylalanine
Formylmethionylleucylphenylalanine
N-Formyl-Methionyl-Leucyl-Phenylalanine
N-Formylated Peptide
N-formylmethionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine
fMet-Leu-Phe
Registry Numbers
59880-97-6
0
CAS Type 1 Name
L-Phenylalanine, N-(N-(N-formyl-L-methionyl)-L-leucyl)-
Previous Indexing
Chemotactic Factors (1980-1983)
Chemotaxis (1970-1979)
Chemotaxis, Leukocyte (1977-1983)
Cytology (1966-1969)
Methionine (1966-1974)
N-Formylmethionine (1975-1983)
Oligopeptides (1973-1983)
Peptides (1966-1972)
Public MeSH Note
85; was N-FORMYL-METHIONYL-LEUCYL-PHENYLALANINE 1984; CHEMOTACTIC PEPTIDE was see N-FORMYLMETHIONINE LEUCYL-PHENYLALANINE 1984-90
Online Note
use N-FORMYLMETHIONINE LEUCYL-PHENYLALANINE to search N-FORMYL-METHIONYL-LEUCYL-PHENYLALANINE 1984
History Note
85; was N-FORMYL-METHIONYL-LEUCYL-PHENYLALANINE 1984; CHEMOTACTIC PEPTIDE was see N-FORMYLMETHIONINE LEUCYL-PHENYLALANINE 1984-90
Date Established
1984/01/01
Date of Entry
1983/06/13
Revision Date
2015/06/02
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