gramicidin B

antibioticmech:aro-f2b46f8b0e ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·MINTED SEEDED

Gramicidin B is one of the three gramicidins in gramicidin D, with a phenylalanine in position 11. It is structurally similar to gramicidin A, but its ability to induce the assembly of bilayers is reduced. Gramicidins form dimers in the bacterial membrane that increase the permeability of cations. — PMID:17572379

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

nonribosomal peptide antibioticsARO:3009657

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

nonribosomal peptide antibiotics ARO:3009657

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C97H139N19O17
Charge	0
Average mass	1843.3 Da
Monoisotopic mass	1842.05963404 Da
Source	PubChem · retrieved 2026-08-29
InChIKey	LQSMEVHEYXACJP-DSHASFMGSA-N

SMILES

C[C@@H](C(=O)N[C@H](CC(C)C)C(=O)N[C@@H](C)C(=O)N[C@H](C(C)C)C(=O)N[C@@H](C(C)C)C(=O)N[C@H](C(C)C)C(=O)N[C@@H](CC1=CNC2=CC=CC=C21)C(=O)N[C@H](CC(C)C)C(=O)N[C@@H](CC3=CC=CC=C3)C(=O)N[C@H](CC(C)C)C(=O)N[C@@H](CC4=CNC5=CC=CC=C54)C(=O)N[C@H](CC(C)C)C(=O)N[C@@H](CC6=CNC7=CC=CC=C76)C(=O)NCCO)NC(=O)CNC(=O)[C@H](C(C)C)NC=O

InChI

InChI=1S/C97H139N19O17/c1-51(2)38-71(106-84(120)59(17)104-79(119)49-102-94(130)80(55(9)10)103-50-118)87(123)105-60(18)85(121)114-82(57(13)14)96(132)116-83(58(15)16)97(133)115-81(56(11)12)95(131)113-78(45-64-48-101-70-35-27-24-32-67(64)70)93(129)109-72(39-52(3)4)88(124)110-75(42-61-28-20-19-21-29-61)91(127)107-74(41-54(7)8)90(126)112-77(44-63-47-100-69-34-26-23-31-66(63)69)92(128)108-73(40-53(5)6)89(125)111-76(86(122)98-36-37-117)43-62-46-99-68-33-25-22-30-65(62)68/h19-35,46-48,50-60,71-78,80-83,99-101,117H,36-45,49H2,1-18H3,(H,98,122)(H,102,130)(H,103,118)(H,104,119)(H,105,123)(H,106,120)(H,107,127)(H,108,128)(H,109,129)(H,110,124)(H,111,125)(H,112,126)(H,113,131)(H,114,121)(H,115,133)(H,116,132)/t59-,60-,71+,72+,73+,74+,75-,76-,77-,78-,80-,81+,82+,83-/m0/s1

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.

gramicidin BARO:3000223
pubchem.compound:25244501

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:3000223`	gramicidin B	`antibioticmech:aro-f2b46f8b0e`	2026-08-30

Molecular targets

The molecular entity or process this compound acts on. Each target carries evidence — this is a mechanistic claim, not a classification.

cell membrane component targeted by antibiotic MEMBRANE ATTACKED_COMPONENT

ARO:3000710

CARD/ARO database assertion; target organism, strain, and assay are not specified. ARO describes interaction with membrane phospholipids and loss of membrane integrity. Evidence status: DATABASE_ASSERTION_ONLY. Source: CARD_ARO 2026-08-30 (retrieved 2026-08-30).

ARO:3000710 (CARD/ARO asserts targeted_by_antibiotic ARO:3000223 (gramicidin B); database assertion, not a primary citation.)

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
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-31 · 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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