ganoderone A

CHEBI:65945 ·resolve ·ANTIVIRAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A tetracyclic triterpenoid that is 5α-lanosta-8,24-diene substituted by a hydroxy group at position 26 and oxo groups at positions 3 and 7. Isolated from the fruiting bodies of Ganoderma pfeifferi, it exhibits against herpes simplex virus. — 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.

CHEBI:15734 CHEBI:15734
CHEBI:26893 CHEBI:26893
CHEBI:46640 CHEBI:46640

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C30H46O3
Charge	0
Average mass	454.695 Da
Monoisotopic mass	454.3447 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	SDAWCNCFVWQZDP-GOUGDUPLSA-N

SMILES

[H][C@@]12CC(=O)C3=C(CC[C@@]4(C)[C@@]3(C)CC[C@]4([H])[C@H](C)CC/C=C(\C)CO)[C@@]1(C)CCC(=O)C2(C)C

InChI

InChI=1S/C30H46O3/c1-19(18-31)9-8-10-20(2)21-11-16-30(7)26-22(12-15-29(21,30)6)28(5)14-13-25(33)27(3,4)24(28)17-23(26)32/h9,20-21,24,31H,8,10-18H2,1-7H3/b19-9+/t20-,21-,24+,28-,29-,30+/m1/s1

Also called

(24E)-26-hydroxylanosta-8,24-diene-3,7-dione (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
5α-lanosta-8,24-diene-26-hydroxy-3,7-dione (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

reaxys:15775259

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:64953 CHEBI:64953

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:65945`	ganoderone A	`antibioticmech:chebi-4034d7e2cd`	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

Provenance

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