sapienic acid

CHEBI:76244 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A hexadecenoic acid in which the double bond is located at position 6 (the Z-geoisomer). A major component of human sebaceous lipids that is involved in skin self-sterilisation and atopic dermatitis amelioration. — 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

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

Label unavailable CHEBI:24548

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C16H30O2
Charge	0
Average mass	254.414 Da
Monoisotopic mass	254.22458 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	NNNVXFKZMRGJPM-KHPPLWFESA-N

SMILES

CCCCCCCCC/C=C\CCCCC(=O)O

InChI

InChI=1S/C16H30O2/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16(17)18/h10-11H,2-9,12-15H2,1H3,(H,17,18)/b11-10-

Also called

(6Z)-hexadec-6-enoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
16:1omega10 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
6Z-hexadecenoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
cis-6-Hexadecenoic acid (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.

Patents and articles

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

Activity roles

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

antibacterial agent CHEBI:33282

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
CHEBI	`CHEBI:76244`	sapienic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-2921fd6676`	2026-08-30

Curation history

SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (CHEBI)
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
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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