cefotetan

CHEBI:3499 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A semi-synthetic second-generation cephamycin antibiotic with [(1-methyl-1H-tetrazol-5-yl)sulfanyl]methyl, methoxy and {[4-(2-amino-1-carboxy-2-oxoethylidene)-1,3-dithietan-2-yl]carbonyl}amino groups at the 3, 7α, and 7β positions, respectively, of the cephem skeleton. It is resistant to a wide range of β-lactamases and is active against a broad spectrum of aerobic and anaerobic Gram-positive and Gram-negative microorganisms. — ChEBI

Classification

cephalosporinARO:0000032

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

• cephamycin CHEBI:55429
• cephalosporin ARO:0000032

Chemical structure

SMILES

[H][C@]12SCC(CSc3nnnn3C)=C(C(=O)O)N1C(=O)[C@]2(NC(=O)C1SC(=C(C(N)=O)C(=O)O)S1)OC

InChI

InChI=1S/C17H17N7O8S4/c1-23-16(20-21-22-23)34-4-5-3-33-15-17(32-2,14(31)24(15)7(5)11(29)30)19-9(26)13-35-12(36-13)6(8(18)25)10(27)28/h13,15H,3-4H2,1-2H3,(H2,18,25)(H,19,26)(H,27,28)(H,29,30)/b12-6-/t13?,15-,17+/m1/s1

Also called

• cefotetanum (INN)— chebi
• (6R,7S)-7-({[4-(2-amino-1-carboxy-2-oxoethylidene)-1,3-dithietan-2-yl]carbonyl}amino)-7-methoxy-3-{[(1-methyl-1H-tetrazol-5-yl)sulfanyl]methyl}-8-oxo-5-thia-1-azabicyclo[4.2.0]oct-2-ene-2-carboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• 7β-({[4-(2-amino-1-carboxy-2-oxoethylidene)-1,3-dithietan-2-yl]carbonyl}amino)-7α-methoxy-3-{[(1-methyl-1H-tetrazol-5-yl)sulfanyl]methyl}-3,4-didehydrocepham-4-carboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• (6R,7S)-7-(4-(carbamoylcarboxymethylene)-1,3-dithiethane-2-carboxamido)-7-methoxy-3-(((1-methyl-1H-tetrazol-5- yl)thio)methyl)-8-oxo-5-thia-1-azabicyclo(4.2.0)oct-2-ene-2- carboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• Cefotetan (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• CTT (EXACT_SYNONYM)— aro
• Cefotetanum (EXACT_SYNONYM)— aro

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.

• cefotetanARO:3004004
• cas:69712-56-7
• kegg.compound:C06886
• lincs.smallmolecule:LSM-5961
• reaxys:5697364
• chembl:CHEMBL474579
• pubchem.compound:53025

Drug registries

Identifiers that name a drug rather than a structure. One of these can cover a parent compound, its salts and its stereoisomers, which this corpus keeps as separate records, so it is not an equivalence of structure.

• drugbank:DB01330
• drugcentral:547
• kegg.drug:D00260

Patents and articles

Documents about this compound. A patent covers a class and an article covers a topic; neither identifies a structure.

• patent:DE2824559
• patent:US4263432
• wikipedia.en:Cefotetan

Activity roles

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

• antimicrobial agent CHEBI:33281
• antibacterial drug CHEBI:36047

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.

Resistance mechanisms

2 source-backed resistance determinants or associations, with ARO grounding where reported. Grouped by reported mechanism type.

Curation history

1. SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources

   Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (ARO, CHEBI)

2. RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources

   Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories

3. RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources

   Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories

4. RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · 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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