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3-Hydroxyoctanoic acid

pair of enantiomers

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ15410154 ↗
Source-derived summary

3-Hydroxyoctanoic acid is a beta-hydroxy acid that is naturally produced in humans, other animals, and plants.

3-Hydroxyoctanoic acid is the primary endogenous agonist of hydroxycarboxylic acid receptor 3 (HCA3), a G protein-coupled receptor protein which is encoded by the human gene HCAR3. In plants, signalling chemical emitted by the orchid Cymbidium floribundum and recognized by Japanese honeybees (Apis cerana japonica).

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The public source identifies “3-Hydroxyoctanoic acid” as pair of enantiomers. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around 3-Hydroxyoctanoic, acid and pair.

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This entry incorporates text from “3-Hydroxyoctanoic acid” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.