AntibioticMech

pneumocandin B0

CHEBI:131609 ·resolve ·ANTIFUNGAL ·EXACT SEEDED

An echinocandin initially isolated as a very minor bioactive fermentation product of Glarea lozoyensis (originally known as Zalerion arboricola). Subsequent random mutagenesis work and optimisation of the fermentation medium permitted the industrial production of pneumocandin B0, which is used as the starting point for the synthesis of the antifungal drug caspofungin. — 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.

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formulaC50H80N8O17
Charge0
Average mass1065.229 Da
Monoisotopic mass1064.56414 Da
SourceChEBI
InChIKeyDQXPFAADCTZLNL-FXDJFZINSA-N

SMILES

[H][C@@]12C[C@@H](O)CN1C(=O)[C@H]([C@@H](C)O)NC(=O)[C@@]([H])(NC(=O)CCCCCCCC[C@@H](C)C[C@@H](C)CC)C[C@@H](O)[C@@H](O)NC(=O)[C@@H]1[C@@H](O)CCN1C(=O)[C@H]([C@H](O)CC(N)=O)NC(=O)[C@H]([C@H](O)[C@@H](O)c1ccc(O)cc1)NC2=O

InChI

InChI=1S/C50H80N8O17/c1-5-25(2)20-26(3)12-10-8-6-7-9-11-13-37(66)52-31-22-35(64)46(71)56-48(73)41-33(62)18-19-57(41)50(75)39(34(63)23-36(51)65)54-47(72)40(43(68)42(67)28-14-16-29(60)17-15-28)55-45(70)32-21-30(61)24-58(32)49(74)38(27(4)59)53-44(31)69/h14-17,25-27,30-35,38-43,46,59-64,67-68,71H,5-13,18-24H2,1-4H3,(H2,51,65)(H,52,66)(H,53,69)(H,54,72)(H,55,70)(H,56,73)/t25-,26+,27+,30+,31-,32-,33-,34+,35+,38-,39-,40-,41-,42-,43-,46+/m0/s1

Also called

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

Activity roles

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

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
SourceNative IDLabelMinted CURIEVersion
CHEBI CHEBI:131609 pneumocandin B0 antibioticmech:chebi-69b9dfc34f 2026-08-30

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

Provenance

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