lymecycline

CHEBI:59040 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A tetracycline-based broad-spectrum antibiotic. It is approximately 5000 times more soluble than tetracycline base and is unique amongst tetracyclines in that it is absorbed by the "active transport" process across the intestinal wall. — ChEBI

Classification

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

• Label unavailable CHEBI:139592
• Label unavailable CHEBI:26895

Chemical structure

SMILES

[H][C@]12C[C@@]3([H])[C@H](N(C)C)C(O)=C(C(=O)NCNCCCC[C@H](N)C(=O)O)C(=O)[C@@]3(O)C(O)=C1C(=O)c1c(O)cccc1[C@@]2(C)O

InChI

InChI=1S/C29H38N4O10/c1-28(42)13-7-6-9-17(34)18(13)22(35)19-14(28)11-15-21(33(2)3)23(36)20(25(38)29(15,43)24(19)37)26(39)32-12-31-10-5-4-8-16(30)27(40)41/h6-7,9,14-16,21,31,34,36-37,42-43H,4-5,8,10-12,30H2,1-3H3,(H,32,39)(H,40,41)/t14-,15-,16-,21-,28+,29-/m0/s1

Also called

• limeciclina (INN)— chebi
• lymecyclinum (INN)— chebi
• N6-[({[(4S,4aS,5aS,6S,12aS)-4-(dimethylamino)-3,6,10,12,12a-pentahydroxy-6-methyl-1,11-dioxo-1,4,4a,5,5a,6,11,12a-octahydrotetracen-2-yl]carbonyl}amino)methyl]-L-lysine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• (+)-N-(5-Amino-5-carboxypentylaminomethyl)-4-dimethylamino-1,4,4a,5,5a,6,11,12a-octahydro-3,6,10,12,12a-pentahydroxy-6-methyl-1,11-dioxonaphthacene-2-carboxamide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• N-Lysinomethyltetracycline (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• N2-(((+)-5-Amino-5-carboxypentylamino)methyl)tetracycline (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• N6-((4-(Dimethylamino)-1,4,4a,5,5a,6,11,12a-octahydro-3,6,10,12,12a-pentahydroxy-6-methyl-1,11-dioxo-2-naphthacenecarboxamido)methyl)lysine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• Tetracycline-L-methylene lysine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• Tetracycline-L-methylenelysine (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

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.

• cas:992-21-2
• reaxys:15428429

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:DB00256
• drugcentral:1619
• kegg.drug:D06884

Patents and articles

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

• wikipedia.en:Lymecycline

Activity roles

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

• antimicrobial agent CHEBI:33281
• antiprotozoal drug CHEBI:35820
• 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.

Mechanism summary

Mode of action

PROTEIN_SYNTHESIS_INHIBITION host shared target — Assigned from ChEBI role CHEBI:48001 (protein synthesis inhibitor). ChEBI asserts the role on the compound. The target it names is one the host has too, so the mechanism is true but is not evidence of selectivity — see mode_of_action_target_scope. Not a curator's mechanistic review.

Curation history

1. SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources

   Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (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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