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.

antibacterial free fatty acids ARO:3003956

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C16H32O2
Charge	0
Average mass	256.43 Da
Monoisotopic mass	256.24023 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	IPCSVZSSVZVIGE-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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

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:3003957`	palmitic acid	`antibioticmech:aro-43406990b9`	2026-08-30

Resistance mechanisms

1 source-backed resistance determinants or associations, with ARO grounding where reported. Grouped by reported mechanism type.

ANTIBIOTIC_EFFLUX 1

ANTIBIOTIC_EFFLUX
Determinant	ARO ID	Organism	Gene families	Evidence
farAB	ARO:3003960	not organism-specific	—	ARO:3003960 (CARD/ARO asserts confers_resistance_to_antibiotic ARO:3003957 (palmitic acid); 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

Provenance

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

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