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.

CHEBI:141493 CHEBI:141493
CHEBI:24681 CHEBI:24681
CHEBI:26195 CHEBI:26195
CHEBI:33566 CHEBI:33566
CHEBI:35618 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

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:31186-12-6
knapsack:C00023666
reaxys:2223336

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:35718 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.