viridicatin

CHEBI:140443 ·resolve ·ANTIBACTERIAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A hydroxyquinolone that is 3-hydroxyuinolin-2(1H)-one which is substituted at position 4 by a phenyl groups. Isolated from the mycelium of several Penicillium species, it exhibits strong antibiotic activity against M. tuberculosis and also against B. subtilis, S. aureus and S. cerevisiae. — 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.

CHEBI:38774 CHEBI:38774

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C15H11NO2
Charge	0
Average mass	237.258 Da
Monoisotopic mass	237.07898 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	QSRVMXWVVMILDI-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

O=c1nc2ccccc2c(-c2ccccc2)c1O

InChI

InChI=1S/C15H11NO2/c17-14-13(10-6-2-1-3-7-10)11-8-4-5-9-12(11)16-15(14)18/h1-9,17H,(H,16,18)

Also called

3-hydroxy-4-phenylquinolin-2(1H)-one (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2,3-dihydroxy-4-phenylquinoline (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
3-hydroxy-4-phenylcarbostyril (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:129-24-8
knapsack:C00026496
metacyc.compound:CPD-18297

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:33282 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:140443`	viridicatin	`antibioticmech:chebi-16dc58cb59`	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
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories

Provenance

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