valinomycin

CHEBI:28545 ·resolve ·ANTIVIRAL ·EXACT SEEDED

A twelve-membered cyclodepsipeptide composed of three repeating D-α-hydroxyisovaleryl-D-valyl-L-lactoyl-L-valyl units joined in sequence. An antibiotic found in several Streptomyces strains. — 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

ionophore with antibiotic activityARO:3005163

Strictly broader compounds or drug classes this molecule belongs to.

Label unavailable CHEBI:35213
Label unavailable CHEBI:51026
ionophore with antibiotic activity ARO:3005163

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C54H90N6O18
Charge	0
Average mass	1111.338 Da
Monoisotopic mass	1110.63116 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	FCFNRCROJUBPLU-DNDCDFAISA-N

SMILES

CC(C)[C@@H]1NC(=O)[C@H](C)OC(=O)[C@@H](C(C)C)NC(=O)[C@@H](C(C)C)OC(=O)[C@H](C(C)C)NC(=O)[C@H](C)OC(=O)[C@@H](C(C)C)NC(=O)[C@@H](C(C)C)OC(=O)[C@H](C(C)C)NC(=O)[C@H](C)OC(=O)[C@@H](C(C)C)NC(=O)[C@@H](C(C)C)OC1=O

InChI

InChI=1S/C54H90N6O18/c1-22(2)34-49(67)73-31(19)43(61)55-38(26(9)10)53(71)77-41(29(15)16)47(65)59-36(24(5)6)51(69)75-33(21)45(63)57-39(27(11)12)54(72)78-42(30(17)18)48(66)60-35(23(3)4)50(68)74-32(20)44(62)56-37(25(7)8)52(70)76-40(28(13)14)46(64)58-34/h22-42H,1-21H3,(H,55,61)(H,56,62)(H,57,63)(H,58,64)(H,59,65)(H,60,66)/t31-,32-,33-,34+,35+,36+,37-,38-,39-,40+,41+,42+/m0/s1

Also called

(3R,6R,9S,12S,15R,18R,21S,24S,27R,30R,33S,36S)-3,6,9,15,18,21,27,30,33-nonaisopropyl-12,24,36-trimethyl-1,7,13,19,25,31-hexaoxa-4,10,16,22,28,34-hexaazacyclohexatriacontane-2,5,8,11,14,17,20,23,26,29,32,35-dodecone (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Cyclic(D-alpha-hydroxyisovaleryl-D-valyl-L-lactoyl-L-valyl-D-alpha-hydroxyisovaleryl-D-valyl-L-lactoyl-L-valyl-D-alpha-hydroxyisovaleryl-D-valyl-L-lactoyl-L-valyl) (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
Valinomycin (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
cyclo[-D-O-Val-D-Val-L-O-Ala-L-Val]3 (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.

Patents and articles

Documents about this compound. A patent covers a class and an article covers a topic; neither identifies a structure.

wikipedia.en:Valinomycin

Activity roles

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

antiviral agent CHEBI:22587
antimicrobial agent CHEBI:33281

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
ARO	`ARO:3007772`	valinomycin	`antibioticmech:aro-7d23fb48f8`	2026-08-30
CHEBI	`CHEBI:28545`	valinomycin	`antibioticmech:chebi-8248bd9470`	2026-08-30

Curation history

SEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-08-30 · seed_from_sources
Seeded from data/raw/ inventories (ARO, 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
RESEEDED_FROM_SOURCES 2026-09-10 · 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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