pyrrolomycin A

CHEBI:156550 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A member of the class of pyrroles that is 1H-pyrrole which is substituted by chloro groups at positions 2 and 3 and by a nitro group position 4. It is the simplest member of the pyrrolomycins, a family of natural products found in several species of the Streptomyces genus. The compound is active against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and some genera of fungi. — ChEBI

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

ionophore with antibiotic activityARO:3005163

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

Label unavailable CHEBI:26455
Label unavailable CHEBI:35716
Label unavailable CHEBI:36683
antibiotic antifungal agent CHEBI:86478
ionophore with antibiotic activity ARO:3005163

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C4H2Cl2N2O2
Charge	0
Average mass	180.978 Da
Monoisotopic mass	179.94933 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	CDHAYBUDIPNGGJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

O=[N+]([O-])c1cnc(Cl)c1Cl

InChI

InChI=1S/C4H2Cl2N2O2/c5-3-2(8(9)10)1-7-4(3)6/h1,7H

Also called

2,3-dichloro-4-nitro-1H-pyrrole (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2,3-dichloro-4-nitropyrrole (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
SF-2080 A (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
SF-2080A (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
antibiotic SF 2080A (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.

Activity roles

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

antibacterial agent CHEBI:33282
antifungal agent CHEBI:35718

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:3007616`	pyrrolomycin A	`antibioticmech:aro-7719b8066f`	2026-08-30
CHEBI	`CHEBI:156550`	pyrrolomycin A	`antibioticmech:chebi-1d8c0f6207`	2026-08-30

Curation history

SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (ARO, CHEBI)
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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