{"term":{"id":"11722","title":"domoic acid","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - domoic acid","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.11722","code":"11722","status":"current","synonym":"<em>synonym<\/em>: (2S,3S,4S)-4-[(2Z,4E,6R)-6-carboxy-6-methylhexa-2,4-dien-2-yl]-3-(carboxymethyl)pyrrolidine-2-carboxylic acid","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Neurotoxickainic acid analog produced by some algal blooms that causes amnesic shellfish poisoning.","notes":{"1":"Filter-feeding shellfish become contaminated from trapping and eating these algae.","2":"Domoic acid is produced by the red alga called doumoi in Japan (Chondria armatasome), diatoms of the genus Pseudo-nitzschia, and by some strains of the diatom species Nitzschia navis-varingica."},"links":[{"term":"Neurotoxic","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11948"},{"term":"amnesic shellfish poisoning","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11579"},{"term":"kainic acid","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11842"}],"sources":["PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 862 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2015-0103)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11722\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11722\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11722\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'domoic acid' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.11722","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-05-14T23:23:03+00:00"}}