CHEBI:61414 - ferrichromes

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ChEBI Name ferrichromes
ChEBI ID CHEBI:61414
Definition Any member of a group of iron(III) chelates that are homodetic cyclic peptides made up of a tripeptide of glycine (or other small, neutral amino acid) and a tripeptide of an N4-acyl-N4-hydroxy-L-ornithine.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
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Formula C24H30FeN9O12R6
Net Charge 0
Average Mass (excl. R groups) 692.39300
Monoisotopic Mass (excl. R groups) 692.13633
SMILES [C@@]1(C(N[C@@]2(C(N[C@@]3(C(N[C@](C(N[C@@](C(N[C@@](C(N1)=O)([H])*)=O)([H])*)=O)(CCCN4C(=[O+][Fe-3]56(ON(C(=[O+]5)*)CCC3)(ON(C(=[O+]6)*)CCC2)O4)*)[H])=O)[H])=O)[H])=O)([H])*
Roles Classification
Chemical Role(s): Bronsted base
A molecular entity capable of accepting a hydron from a donor (Bronsted acid).
(via organic amino compound )
Biological Role(s): Escherichia coli metabolite
Any bacterial metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in Escherichia coli.
(via iron(III) hydroxamate )
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ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing ferrichromes (CHEBI:61414) is a Fe(III)-complexed hydroxamate siderophore (CHEBI:84688)
ferrichromes (CHEBI:61414) is a homodetic cyclic peptide (CHEBI:24613)
Incoming ferrichrome (CHEBI:5019) is a ferrichromes (CHEBI:61414)
ferricrocin (CHEBI:64492) is a ferrichromes (CHEBI:61414)
ferrirubin (CHEBI:77867) is a ferrichromes (CHEBI:61414)
Synonym Source
ferrichrome ChEBI
Last Modified
10 February 2015
General Comment
2011-02-21 Ferrichromes are growth-promoting iron chelates that were first isolated from Ustilago sphaerogena (the rust fungus) in the 1950s. Ferrichrome itself and related compounds were subsequently isolated from Aspergillaceae and Penicillium resticulosum.