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prodigiosin

chemical compound
Class type of: biological pigment, alkaloid, pyrrole Q415663

Facts

11 properties
Instance of
type of chemical entity
Subclass of
biological pigment, alkaloid, pyrrole
Canonical SMILES
CCCCCC1=C(NC(=C1)C=C2C(=CC(=N2)C3=CC=CN3)OC)C[5]
Chemical formula
C₂₀H₂₅N₃O[6]
Color
red[7]
Described by source
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11]
Different from
prodigiozan[12]
Found in taxon
Serratia marcescens, Vibrio gazogenes, Escherichia coli[8][9][10]
Isomeric SMILES
CCCCCC1=C(NC(=C1)/C=C\2/C(=CC(=N2)C3=CC=CN3)OC)C[13]
Mass
+323.199762[14]
Subject has role
antibiotic[15]
🏷️ Also known as
en prodigiosin fa پرودیگیوزین fr prodigiosine he פרודיגיוסין it Prodigiosina ja プロジギオシン pl prodigiozyna uk Продігіозин zh 灵菌红素 zh-hant 靈菌紅素
🔖 Identifiers · 18
OpenAlex ID
C2779337610
CAS Registry Number
82-89-3
ChEBI ID
82758
ChemSpider ID
4526736
De Agostini ID
prodigiosina
Freebase ID
/m/0ft4ys
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/h7,9-13,21-22H,4-6,8H2,1-3H3/b19-12-
InChIKey
SHUNBVWMKSXXOM-UNOMPAQXSA-N, SZXDNGVQRDTJSD-VBKFSLOCSA-N
MeSH descriptor ID
D011353
MeSH tree code
D03.383.129.578.748, D23.767.778
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2779337610
NSC number
47147
Show all 18 identifiers +6
Probes And Drugs ID
PD165749
PubChem CID
135455579
SureChEMBL ID
19452932, 1388956
UMLS CUI
C0033259
UNII
OL369FU7CJ
UniChem compound ID
97291659

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🔗 Connections
Found in taxon 2
Escherichia coli, Serratia marcescens
Subclass of 2
alkaloid, biological pigment
Color 1
red
Subject has role 1
antibiotic
← Product or material produced 1
Serratia marcescens
← This taxon is source of 1
Serratia marcescens
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Summary

prodigiosin is a type of chemical entity[1]. prodigiosin is a type of biological pigment[2], alkaloid[3], and pyrrole[4].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Biosynthesis of the red antibiotic, prodigiosin, in Serratia: identification of a novel 2-methyl-3-n-amyl-pyrrole (MAP) assembly pathway, definition of the terminal condensing enzyme, and implications for undecylprodigiosin biosynthesis in Streptomy. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Magnesidin A, a component of marine antibiotic magnesidin, produced by Vibrio gazogenes ATCC29988. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Engineering enzymatic cascades for the efficient biotransformation of eugenol and taxifolin to silybin and isosilybin. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Medical Subject Headings. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19w ago · Nabbegat · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Color → red
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