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KEGG Pathway - A circle includes many compounds

Dear all:

Recently I'm learning KEGG Metabolic Pathway(e.g. sil00130), but I find there is a circle that is a set of many compounds, I don't know whether this circle involves a metabolic reaction(because I can't find it in kgml file), and what meaning of this circle is. If there is anybody understand that, it will be helpful. Greatly appreciate any help.

Thanks. sil000130

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1 answer

The tooltip name simply enumerates a couple of possible compounds (actually, one generic name for a variable <n> and two common instantiations for specific fixed <n>s) for different values of <n> in the <n> bracket [] of the structure drawing.

Got it! Thanks! But I find the kgml file excludes this reaction, does its missing affect the result of constructing metabolic network? And if it does, how can I add it to my network accurately?

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