salaspermic acid

CHEBI:66153 ·resolve ·ANTIVIRAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A hexacyclic triterpenoid that is D:A-friedooleanan-29-oic acid substituted by a hydroxy group at position 3 and an epoxy group across positions 3 and 24 (the (3β,20α stereoisomer). Isolated from Salacia macrosperma and Tripterygium wilfordii, it exhibits anti-HIV activity. — 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:35868 CHEBI:35868
CHEBI:59780 CHEBI:59780
CHEBI:70994 CHEBI:70994

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C30H48O4
Charge	0
Average mass	472.71 Da
Monoisotopic mass	472.35526 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	ZXENWDWQTWYUGY-UUZWCOCASA-N

SMILES

[H][C@]12CC[C@@]34CO[C@@](O)(CC[C@@]3([H])[C@]1(C)CC[C@@]1(C)[C@]3([H])C[C@](C)(C(=O)O)CC[C@]3(C)CC[C@]21C)[C@@H]4C

InChI

InChI=1S/C30H48O4/c1-19-29-9-7-20-26(4,21(29)8-10-30(19,33)34-18-29)14-16-28(6)22-17-25(3,23(31)32)12-11-24(22,2)13-15-27(20,28)5/h19-22,33H,7-18H2,1-6H3,(H,31,32)/t19-,20+,21+,22-,24-,25-,26-,27-,28+,29+,30+/m1/s1

Also called

(3S,5aR,7aS,7bR,9aS,12R,13aR,13bS,15aR,15bS,16R)-3-hydroxy-7b,9a,12,13b,15a,16-hexamethylicosahydro-3,5a-methanochryseno[2,1-c]oxepine-12(5H)-carboxylic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
(3β,20α)-3,24-epoxy-3-hydroxy-D:A-friedooleanan-29-oic acid (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:71247-78-4
reaxys:4889115

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:53756 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:66153`	salaspermic acid	`antibioticmech:chebi-df04a15b65`	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.