mevastatin

CHEBI:34848 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A carboxylic ester that is pravastatin that is lacking the allylic hydroxy group. A hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA reductase inhibitor (statin) isolated from Penicillium citrinum and from Penicillium brevicompactum, its clinical use as a lipid-regulating drug ceased following reports of toxicity in animals. — 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:142348
Label unavailable CHEBI:26188
Label unavailable CHEBI:33308
Label unavailable CHEBI:75885
Label unavailable CHEBI:87632

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C23H34O5
Charge	0
Average mass	390.52 Da
Monoisotopic mass	390.24062 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	AJLFOPYRIVGYMJ-INTXDZFKSA-N

SMILES

[H][C@@]12C(=CCC[C@@H]1OC(=O)[C@@H](C)CC)C=C[C@H](C)[C@@H]2CC[C@@H]1C[C@@H](O)CC(=O)O1

InChI

InChI=1S/C23H34O5/c1-4-14(2)23(26)28-20-7-5-6-16-9-8-15(3)19(22(16)20)11-10-18-12-17(24)13-21(25)27-18/h6,8-9,14-15,17-20,22,24H,4-5,7,10-13H2,1-3H3/t14-,15-,17+,18+,19-,20-,22-/m0/s1

Also called

mevastatina (INN)— chebi
mevastatinum (INN)— chebi
mévastatine (INN)— chebi
(1S,7S,8S,8aR)-8-{2-[(2R,4R)-4-hydroxy-6-oxotetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-yl]ethyl}-7-methyl-1,2,3,7,8,8a-hexahydronaphthalen-1-yl (2S)-2-methylbutanoate (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
CS 500 (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Compactin (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ML 236 B (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
ML-236B (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Mevastatin (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
antibiotic ML 236B (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.

Drug registries

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drugbank:DB06693

Patents and articles

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

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:34848`	mevastatin	`antibioticmech:chebi-625ae5155a`	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
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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