sepiapterin

Introduction

yellow fluorescing pigment

Pathology

• accumulates in brain with sepiapterin reductase deficiency

Physiology

• intermediate in the salvage pathway of tetrahydrobiopterin

Laboratory

• sepiapterin in CSF
• sepiapterin/creatinine in urine

More general terms

• biopterin

Database

• PubChem: http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/summary.cgi?cid=65253