Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Pipecolic acid (piperidine-2-carboxylic acid) is a small organic molecule which accumulates in pipecolic acidemia. It is the carboxylic acid of piperidine.It can be associated with some forms of epilepsy.CRYM a taxon-specific crystallin protein that also binds thyroid hormones is involved in the pipecolic acid pathway.Pipecolic acid was identified in the Murchison meteorite.
