saquinavir

CHEBI:63621 ·resolve ·ANTIVIRAL ·EXACT SEEDED

An aspartic acid derivative obtained by formal condensation of the primary amino group of (2S,3R)-4-[(3S,4aS,8aS)-3-(tert-butylcarbamoyl)octahydroisoquinolin-2(1H)-yl]-3-hydroxy-1-phenylbutan-2-ylamine with the carboxy group of N2(-quinolin-2-ylcarbonyl)-L-asparagine. An inhibitor of HIV-1 protease. — 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:26513
Label unavailable CHEBI:52987

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C38H50N6O5
Charge	0
Average mass	670.855 Da
Monoisotopic mass	670.38427 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	QWAXKHKRTORLEM-UGJKXSETSA-N

SMILES

[H][C@@]12CCCC[C@]1([H])CN(C[C@@H](O)[C@H](Cc1ccccc1)NC(=O)[C@H](CC(N)=O)NC(=O)c1ccc3ccccc3n1)[C@H](C(=O)NC(C)(C)C)C2

InChI

InChI=1S/C38H50N6O5/c1-38(2,3)43-37(49)32-20-26-14-7-8-15-27(26)22-44(32)23-33(45)30(19-24-11-5-4-6-12-24)41-36(48)31(21-34(39)46)42-35(47)29-18-17-25-13-9-10-16-28(25)40-29/h4-6,9-13,16-18,26-27,30-33,45H,7-8,14-15,19-23H2,1-3H3,(H2,39,46)(H,41,48)(H,42,47)(H,43,49)/t26-,27+,30-,31-,32-,33+/m0/s1

Also called

Fortovase (BRAND_NAME)— chebi
N1-{(2S,3R)-4-[(3S,4aS,8aS)-3-(tert-butylcarbamoyl)octahydroisoquinolin-2(1H)-yl]-3-hydroxy-1-phenylbutan-2-yl}-N2-(quinolin-2-ylcarbonyl)-L-aspartamide (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

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Drug registries

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Patents and articles

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Activity roles

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HIV protease inhibitor CHEBI:35660
antiviral drug CHEBI:36044

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:63621`	saquinavir	`antibioticmech:chebi-422402fccd`	2026-08-30

Mechanism summary

Mode of action: VIRAL_PROTEASE_INHIBITION microbial target — Assigned from ChEBI role CHEBI:35660 (HIV protease 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.
Clinical status: APPROVED

Curation history

SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-31 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-31 · seed_from_sources
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RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · seed_from_sources
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Provenance

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

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