cilofungin

CHEBI:315019 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A cyclic hexapeptide echinocandin antibiotic isolated from Aspergillus spp. By inhibiting the conversion of lanosterol to ergosterol, it invades a fungus' ability to synthesize cell walls. A modified form of echinocandin B, it is an antimycotic agent against Candida albicans. — ChEBI

Classification

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

• echinocandin CHEBI:57248
• antibiotic antifungal drug CHEBI:87113

Chemical structure

SMILES

CCCCCCCCOc1ccc(C(=O)N[C@H]2C[C@@H](O)[C@@H](O)NC(=O)[C@@H]3[C@@H](O)[C@@H](C)CN3C(=O)[C@H]([C@@H](C)O)NC(=O)[C@H]([C@H](O)[C@@H](O)c3ccc(O)cc3)NC(=O)[C@@H]3C[C@@H](O)CN3C(=O)[C@H]([C@@H](C)O)NC2=O)cc1

InChI

InChI=1S/C49H71N7O17/c1-5-6-7-8-9-10-19-73-31-17-13-28(14-18-31)42(65)50-32-21-34(61)45(68)54-47(70)38-39(62)24(2)22-56(38)49(72)36(26(4)58)52-46(69)37(41(64)40(63)27-11-15-29(59)16-12-27)53-44(67)33-20-30(60)23-55(33)48(71)35(25(3)57)51-43(32)66/h11-18,24-26,30,32-41,45,57-64,68H,5-10,19-23H2,1-4H3,(H,50,65)(H,51,66)(H,52,69)(H,53,67)(H,54,70)/t24-,25+,26+,30+,32-,33-,34+,35-,36-,37-,38-,39-,40-,41-,45+/m0/s1

Also called

• cilofungina (INN)— chebi
• cilofungine (INN)— chebi
• cilofunginum (INN)— chebi
• 5.1:6-anhydro{(4R,5R)-4,5-dihydroxy-N2-[4-(octyloxy)benzoyl]-L-ornithyl-L-threonyl-(4R)-4-hydroxy-L-prolyl-(4S)-4-hydroxy-4-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-L-threonyl-L-threonyl-(3S,4S)-3-hydroxy-4-methyl-L-proline} (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• N-{(2R,6S,9S,11R,12R,14aS,15S,16S,20S,23S,25aS)-23-[(1S,2S)-1,2-dihydroxy-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethyl]-2,11,12,15-tetrahydroxy-6,20-bis[(1R)-1-hydroxyethyl]-16-methyl-5,8,14,19,22,25-hexaoxotetracosahydro-1H-dipyrrolo[2,1-c:2',1'-l][1,4,7,10,13,16]hexaazacyclohenicosin-9-yl}-4-(octyloxy)benzamide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• LY-121019 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
• LY121019 (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.

• cas:79404-91-4
• reaxys:7164873

Patents and articles

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

• wikipedia.en:Cilofungin

Activity roles

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

• antifungal agent CHEBI:35718
• antifungal drug CHEBI:86327

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.

Mechanism summary

Mode of action

CELL_WALL_SYNTHESIS_INHIBITION microbial target — Assigned from ChEBI role CHEBI:230471 (EC 2.4.1.34 (1,3-β-glucan synthase) inhibitor). ChEBI asserts the role on the compound. The role names a target specific to the microbe or virus — see mode_of_action_target_scope. Not a curator's mechanistic review.

Curation history

1. SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources

   Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (CHEBI)

2. RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources

   Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories

3. RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources

   Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories

4. 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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