palmitic acid
CHEBI:15756
·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL
·EXACT
SEEDED
Palmitic acid is the most common saturated fatty acid found in animals, plants, and microorganisms. Palmitic acid is found to have antibacterial properties. — PMID:10447892
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
antibacterial free fatty acidsARO:3003956
Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.
Chemical structure
Computed structure properties
| Molecular formula | C16H32O2 |
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| Charge | 0 |
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| Average mass | 256.43 Da |
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| Monoisotopic mass | 256.24023 Da |
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| Source | ChEBI |
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| InChIKey | IPCSVZSSVZVIGE-UHFFFAOYSA-N |
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SMILES
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC(=O)O
InChI
InChI=1S/C16H32O2/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16(17)18/h2-15H2,1H3,(H,17,18)
Also called
- Cetylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— aro
- Hexadecanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— aro
- N-Hexadecanoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— aro
- Palmitate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— aro
Cross-references
Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.
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 |
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| ARO |
ARO:3003957 |
palmitic acid |
antibioticmech:aro-43406990b9 |
2026-08-30 |
Resistance mechanisms
1 known routes by which microbes
resist this compound, grounded in ARO where CARD models them. Grouped by mechanism
type — expand a group to see its determinants.
ANTIBIOTIC_EFFLUX 1
ANTIBIOTIC_EFFLUX
| Determinant | ARO ID | Organism | Gene families | Evidence |
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| farAB |
ARO:3003960 |
not organism-specific |
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- ARO:3003960 (CARD/ARO asserts confers_resistance_to_antibiotic ARO:3003957 (palmitic acid); database assertion, not a primary citation.)
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Curation history
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SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES
2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (ARO)
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES
2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
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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/.
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