altenusin

CHEBI:141340 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A carboxybiphenyl that is [biphenyl]-2-carboxylic acid which is substituted by a hydroxy group at positions 3, 4' and 5', methoxy group at position 5 and a methyl group at position 2'. It is a a metabolite isolated from Alternaria and several other fungal species. — 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:141493
Label unavailable CHEBI:24681
Label unavailable CHEBI:26195
Label unavailable CHEBI:33566
Label unavailable CHEBI:35618

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C15H14O6
Charge	0
Average mass	290.271 Da
Monoisotopic mass	290.07904 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	ADPBTBPPIIKLEH-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

COc1cc(O)c(C(=O)O)c(-c2cc(O)c(O)cc2C)c1

InChI

InChI=1S/C15H14O6/c1-7-3-11(16)12(17)6-9(7)10-4-8(21-2)5-13(18)14(10)15(19)20/h3-6,16-18H,1-2H3,(H,19,20)

Also called

3,4',5'-trihydroxy-5-methoxy-2'-methyl[biphenyl]-2-carboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2,4',5'-trihydroxy-5-methoxy-2'-methyl-(1,1'-biphenyl)-2-carboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
2-(4,5-dihydroxy-2-methylphenyl)-6-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
MS 341 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
MS-341 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
alutenusin (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.

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
CHEBI	`CHEBI:141340`	altenusin	`antibioticmech:chebi-4b38a10851`	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

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

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