FB2026_03 , released September 17, 2026
Chemical: monosodium glutamate
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General Information
Name
monosodium glutamate
FlyBase ID
FBch0001051
ChEBI Name
monosodium glutamate
ChEBI ID
CHEBI:64220
PubChem Name
PubChem ID
Chemical Structure
Chemical structure of monosodium glutamate
monosodium glutamate
InChIKey

LPUQAYUQRXPFSQ-UHFFFAOYSA-M

Definition (ChEBI)

An organic sodium salt that is the monosodium salt of glutamic acid.

Roles Classification (ChEBI)
Comment
Synonyms and Secondary IDs (6)
Synonyms
MSG
(ChEBI, 2019-, Kasozi et al., 2018)
glutamate
(Zhang and Gaudry, 2016)
monosodium glutamate
(Merinas-Amo et al., 2024, ChEBI, 2019-, Kasozi et al., 2018, Abolaji et al., 2017)
sodium 2-ammoniopentanedioate
(ChEBI, 2019-)
sodium 2-azaniumylpentanedioate
(ChEBI, 2019-)
sodium glutamate
(ChEBI, 2019-, Miyamoto and Amrein, 2019)
Secondary FlyBase IDs
    References (7)