Genipin

antibioticmech:curator-a1214aecf9 ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·MINTED PROPOSED

An iridoid with antibacterial activity against canine ocular staphylococcal isolates. — DOI:10.1167/iovs.67.3.18

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C11H14O5
Charge	0
Average mass	226.23 Da
Monoisotopic mass	226.08412354 Da
Source	https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/442424 · retrieved 2026-09-08
InChIKey	AZKVWQKMDGGDSV-BCMRRPTOSA-N

SMILES

COC(=O)C1=CO[C@H]([C@H]2[C@@H]1CC=C2CO)O

InChI

InChI=1S/C11H14O5/c1-15-10(13)8-5-16-11(14)9-6(4-12)2-3-7(8)9/h2,5,7,9,11-12,14H,3-4H2,1H3/t7-,9-,11-/m1/s1

Also called

(+)-Genipin (EXACT_SYNONYM)— curator

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.

pubchem.compound:442424

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	Evidence
CURATOR	`DOI:10.1167/iovs.67.3.18#genipin`	Genipin	`antibioticmech:curator-a1214aecf9`	2026-09-08	DOI:10.1167/iovs.67.3.18 — "Slenter et al. tested genipin against canine ocular Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Streptococcus canis isolates, reported minimum bactericidal concentrations, and measured concentration-dependent bactericidal activity against staphylococci." (PubChem CID 442424 supplies the standard InChI, InChIKey, formula, and isomeric SMILES for genipin.)

Curation history

PROPOSED_FROM_CURATOR_INVENTORY 2026-09-08 · seed_from_sources
Proposed from curation/curator_antibiotics.tsv

Provenance

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

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