nigranoic acid

CHEBI:66626 ·resolve ·ANTIVIRAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A tetracyclic triterpenoid that is 3,4-secocycloarta-4(28),24-(Z)-diene substituted by carboxy groups at positions 3 and 26. Isolated from Schisandra henryi and Schisandra propinqua, it exhibits cytotoxic and anti-HIV activities. — 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:26893
Label unavailable CHEBI:35692

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C30H46O4
Charge	0
Average mass	470.694 Da
Monoisotopic mass	470.33961 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	NJFOSFIPGRXARF-BRTULJEKSA-N

SMILES

[H][C@@]12CC[C@@H](C(=C)C)[C@@]3(CCC(=O)O)C[C@]31CC[C@@]1(C)[C@@]2(C)CC[C@]1([H])[C@H](C)CC/C=C(/C)C(=O)O

InChI

InChI=1S/C30H46O4/c1-19(2)22-10-11-24-28(6)14-12-23(20(3)8-7-9-21(4)26(33)34)27(28,5)16-17-30(24)18-29(22,30)15-13-25(31)32/h9,20,22-24H,1,7-8,10-18H2,2-6H3,(H,31,32)(H,33,34)/b21-9-/t20-,22+,23-,24+,27-,28+,29-,30+/m1/s1

Also called

(2Z,6R)-6-[(1R,3aS,3bS,6S,6aR,7aS,9aR)-6a-(2-carboxyethyl)-3a,9a-dimethyl-6-(prop-1-en-2-yl)dodecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]cyclopropa[e]naphthalen-1-yl]-2-methylhept-2-enoic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
3,4-secocycloarta-4(28),24-(Z)-diene-3,26-dioic acid (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:39111-07-4
reaxys:2314904

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:66626`	nigranoic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-b6db7ba1b7`	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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