prodigiosin

CHEBI:82758 ·resolve ·ANTIMICROBIAL_UNSPECIFIED ·EXACT SEEDED

A member of the class of tripyrroles that is a red-coloured pigment with antibiotic properties produced by Serratia marcescens. — 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:35618 CHEBI:35618
CHEBI:36317 CHEBI:36317
CHEBI:36820 CHEBI:36820

Chemical structure

Computed structure properties
Molecular formula	C20H25N3O
Charge	0
Average mass	323.44 Da
Monoisotopic mass	323.19976 Da
Source	ChEBI
InChIKey	SZXDNGVQRDTJSD-VBKFSLOCSA-N

SMILES

CCCCCC1=C/C(=C/c2nc(-c3cccn3)cc2OC)N=C1C

InChI

InChI=1S/C20H25N3O/c1-4-5-6-8-15-11-16(22-14(15)2)12-19-20(24-3)13-18(23-19)17-9-7-10-21-17/h7,9-13,21,23H,4-6,8H2,1-3H3/b16-12-

Also called

4-methoxy-5-[(Z)-(5-methyl-4-pentyl-2H-pyrrol-2-ylidene)methyl]-1H,1'H-2,2'-bipyrrole (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi
4-Methoxy-5-((5-methyl-4-pentyl-2H-pyrrol-2-ylidene)methyl)-2,2'-bipyrrole (EXACT_SYNONYM)— chebi

Cross-references

Equivalent identifiers for this same structure in other resources.

cas:82-89-3
metacyc.compound:CPD-16992
reaxys:4526727
wikipedia.en:Prodigiosin

Activity roles

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

CHEBI:33281 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
CHEBI	`CHEBI:82758`	prodigiosin	`antibioticmech:chebi-2f267709c5`	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.