A member of the class of ferrichromes that is an iron(III) chelate of a homodetic cyclic peptide made up of a tripeptide of glycine and a tripeptide of N4-acetyl-N4-hydroxy-L-ornithine.
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This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
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.