erdasporine C

CHEBI:156315 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

An organic heterohexacyclic compound that is 6,7,12,13-tetrahydro-5H-indolo[2,3-a]pyrrolo[3,4-c]carbazole in which the hydrogens at positions 5 and 7 are substituted by a methoxycarbonyl and oxo groups, respectively. It is synthesized by a gene cluster found in environmental DNA and exhibits cytotoxic activity against human HCT116 cancer cells and Staphylococcus aureus. — 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:25248
Label unavailable CHEBI:37697
Label unavailable CHEBI:50995
Label unavailable CHEBI:51914

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C22H15N3O3
Charge	0
Average mass	369.38 Da
Monoisotopic mass	369.11134 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	DOZODIABNANYHJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

COC(=O)C1NC(=O)c2c1c1c3ccccc3nc1c1nc3ccccc3c21

InChI

InChI=1S/C22H15N3O3/c1-28-22(27)20-16-14-10-6-2-4-8-12(10)23-18(14)19-15(17(16)21(26)25-20)11-7-3-5-9-13(11)24-19/h2-9,20,23-24H,1H3,(H,25,26)

Also called

methyl 7-oxo-6,7,12,13-tetrahydro-5H-indolo[2,3-a]pyrrolo[3,4-c]carbazole-5-carboxylate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
methyl 14-oxo-3,13,23-triazahexacyclo[14.7.0.02,10.04,9.011,15.017,22]tricosa-1,4,6,8,10,15,17,19,21-nonaene-12-carboxylate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Activity roles

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

antibacterial agent CHEBI:33282

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:156315`	erdasporine C	`antibioticmech:chebi-3e580d5e40`	2026-08-30

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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