An ω-hydroxy fatty acid ascaroside obtained by formal condensation of the alcoholic hydroxy group of 9-hydroxynonanoic acid with ascarylopyranose (the α anomer). It is a metabolite of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
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This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Detected in wild type (N2) worms. A major ascaroside in acox-1(ok2257) mutant worms, oscr#10 has also been detected in dhs-28(hj8) and maoc-1(hj13) mutant worms.
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