mebendazole

antibioticmech:aro-adaab5b65b ·ANTIFUNGAL ·MINTED SEEDED

Mebendazole has a role as an antinematodal drug, a tubulin modulator, and a fungal microtubule-destabilising agent. — PMID:35149760

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

benzimidazole antifungalARO:3009317

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

benzimidazole antifungal ARO:3009317

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C16H13N3O3
Charge	0
Average mass	295.29 Da
Monoisotopic mass	295.09569129 Da
Source	PubChem · retrieved 2026-08-29
InChIKey	OPXLLQIJSORQAM-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

COC(=O)NC1=NC2=C(N1)C=C(C=C2)C(=O)C3=CC=CC=C3

InChI

InChI=1S/C16H13N3O3/c1-22-16(21)19-15-17-12-8-7-11(9-13(12)18-15)14(20)10-5-3-2-4-6-10/h2-9H,1H3,(H2,17,18,19,21)

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.

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
ARO	`ARO:3009184`	mebendazole	`antibioticmech:aro-adaab5b65b`	2026-08-30

Mechanism summary

Clinical status: APPROVED

Resistance mechanisms

1 source-backed resistance determinants or associations, with ARO grounding where reported. Grouped by reported mechanism type.

ANTIBIOTIC_TARGET_ALTERATION 1

ANTIBIOTIC_TARGET_ALTERATION
Determinant	ARO ID	Organism	Gene families	Evidence
Saccharomyces cerevisiae with mutations conferring resistance to mebendazole	ARO:3009477	not organism-specific	—	ARO:3009477 (CARD/ARO asserts confers_resistance_to_antibiotic ARO:3009184 (mebendazole); database assertion, not a primary citation.)

Curation history

SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (ARO)
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
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-31 · seed_from_sources
Re-seeded from updated data/raw/ inventories
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-31 · 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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