aureothricin

CHEBI:156452 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A dithiolopyrrolone antibiotic that is 4,5-dihydro[1,2]dithiolo[4,3-b]pyrrole in which the hydrogens at positions 4,5 and 6 have been replaced by methyl, oxo and propanoylamino groups, respectively. It is a moderate antimicrobial by-product of the thiolutin fermentation in various Streptomyces species. — ChEBI

Machine-generated and unreviewed. Identity, structure and cross-references come straight from ChEBI's and CARD's own data; no curator has signed off on this record yet.

Classification

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

Label unavailable CHEBI:140325
dithiolopyrrolone antibiotic CHEBI:156449

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C9H10N2O2S2
Charge	0
Average mass	242.325 Da
Monoisotopic mass	242.01837 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	UGZYFXMSMFMTSM-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CCC(=O)Nc1c2sscc-2n(C)c1=O

InChI

InChI=1S/C9H10N2O2S2/c1-3-6(12)10-7-8-5(4-14-15-8)11(2)9(7)13/h4H,3H2,1-2H3,(H,10,12)

Also called

N-(4-methyl-5-oxo-4,5-dihydro[1,2]dithiolo[4,3-b]pyrrol-6-yl)propanamide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
4-methyl-6-propionamido-1,2-dithiolo[4,3-b]pyrrol-5(4H)-one (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-(4,5-dihydro-4-methyl-5-oxo-1,2-dithiolo[4,3-b]pyrrol-6-yl)propionamide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
N-{4-methyl-5-oxo-4H,5H-[1,2]dithiolo[4,3-b]pyrrol-6- yl}propanamide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
propanoyl-pyrrothine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
propionopyrrothine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Identifiers for this same structure in other resources. An accession that lands on two different structures in this corpus is withheld from both rather than shown here, since it names at most one of them.

Activity roles

Every antimicrobial role a source asserts for this compound — the unreduced evidence behind its antimicrobial_class.

antimicrobial agent CHEBI:33281
antibacterial agent CHEBI:33282
antifungal agent CHEBI:35718

Source concepts

Every upstream concept that resolved to this record. The merge is the product: this is what shows ChEBI and CARD are describing the same structure.

Upstream concepts merged into this record
Source	Native ID	Label	Minted CURIE	Version
CHEBI	`CHEBI:156452`	aureothricin	`antibioticmech:chebi-cb204c8135`	2026-08-30

Mechanism summary

Mode of action: NUCLEIC_ACID_SYNTHESIS_INHIBITION host shared target — Assigned from ChEBI role CHEBI:37416 (EC 2.7.7.6 (RNA polymerase) inhibitor). ChEBI asserts the role on the compound. The target it names is one the host has too, so the mechanism is true but is not evidence of selectivity — see mode_of_action_target_scope. Not a curator's mechanistic review.

Curation history

SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (CHEBI)
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories

Provenance

Seeded by scripts/seed_from_sources.py from the committed inventories in data/raw/. View the record (YAML).

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