formicin

antibioticmech:aro-1286e26ebd ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·MINTED SEEDED

Formicin is a two-component broad-spectrum lantibiotic produced by Bacillus paralicheniformis APC 1576, exhibiting antimicrobial activity against several Gram-positive species, including Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridioides difficile and Listeria monocytogenes. — PMID:27450592

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

ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide antibioticsARO:3009656

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide antibiotics ARO:3009656

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C3H7NO2
Charge	0
Average mass	89.09 Da
Monoisotopic mass	89.047678466 Da
Source	PubChem · retrieved 2026-08-29
InChIKey	HWJHZLJIIWOTGZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

CC(=O)NCO

InChI

InChI=1S/C3H7NO2/c1-3(6)4-2-5/h5H,2H2,1H3,(H,4,6)

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.

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
ARO	`ARO:3003904`	formicin	`antibioticmech:aro-1286e26ebd`	2026-08-30

Curation history

SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (ARO)
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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