2α-hydroxymaprounic acid 2,3-bis-p-hydroxybenzoate

CHEBI:66672 ·resolve ·ANTIVIRAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A pentacyclic triterpenoid that is the diester obtained by the condensation of the hydroxy groups of 2α-hydroxymaprounic acid with p-hydroxybenzoic acid. Isolated from Maprounea africana, it exhibits inhibitory activity against HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. — 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:25872
Label unavailable CHEBI:36054

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C44H56O8
Charge	0
Average mass	712.924 Da
Monoisotopic mass	712.39752 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	XPEVLOSUULAUFH-AHHVVZNJSA-N

SMILES

[H][C@]12CC[C@]3(C)C(=CC[C@@]4(C(=O)O)CCC(C)(C)C[C@]43[H])[C@]1(C)CC[C@@]1([H])C(C)(C)[C@@H](OC(=O)c3ccc(O)cc3)[C@H](OC(=O)c3ccc(O)cc3)C[C@]21C

InChI

InChI=1S/C44H56O8/c1-39(2)22-23-44(38(49)50)21-18-32-41(5)19-16-31-40(3,4)35(52-37(48)27-10-14-29(46)15-11-27)30(51-36(47)26-8-12-28(45)13-9-26)24-43(31,7)33(41)17-20-42(32,6)34(44)25-39/h8-15,18,30-31,33-35,45-46H,16-17,19-25H2,1-7H3,(H,49,50)/t30-,31+,33+,34+,35+,41+,42-,43+,44-/m1/s1

Also called

(4aS,6bR,8aR,10R,11R,12aR,12bR,14aS,14bS)-10,11-bis[(4-hydroxybenzoyl)oxy]-2,2,6b,9,9,12a,14a-heptamethyl-1,3,4,5,6b,7,8,8a,9,10,11,12,12a,12b,13,14,14a,14b-octadecahydropicene-4a(2H)-carboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
D-Friedoolean-14-en-28-oic acid, 1,3-bis((4-hydroxybenzoyl)oxy)-,(1beta,3beta)- (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:155510-78-4

Activity roles

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

HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitor CHEBI:53756

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:66672`	2α-hydroxymaprounic acid 2,3-bis-p-hydroxybenzoate	`antibioticmech:chebi-b0f76aa431`	2026-08-30

Mechanism summary

Mode of action: VIRAL_POLYMERASE_INHIBITION microbial target — Assigned from ChEBI role CHEBI:53756 (HIV-1 reverse transcriptase 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

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 (YAML).

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