rifampicin   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 2765

Synonyms: Rifadin® | rifampin
Approved drug PDB Ligand
rifampicin is an approved drug (FDA (1971))
Comment: As with many natural products with complex structures, there is some ambiguity as to the exact structure of rifampicin. Common representations of the structure include CID 5458213, and CID 5381226.
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2D Structure
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Physico-chemical Properties
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Hydrogen bond acceptors 12
Hydrogen bond donors 6
Rotatable bonds 5
Topological polar surface area 220.15
Molecular weight 822.41
XLogP 4
No. Lipinski's rules broken 2
SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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Canonical SMILES COC1C=COC2(C)Oc3c(C2=O)c2c(O)c(C=NN4CCN(CC4)C)c(c(c2c(c3C)O)O)NC(=O)C(=CC=CC(C(C(C(C(C(C1C)OC(=O)C)C)O)C)O)C)C
Isomeric SMILES CO[C@H]1/C=C/O[C@@]2(C)Oc3c(C2=O)c2c(O)c(/C=N/N4CCN(CC4)C)c(c(c2c(c3C)O)O)NC(=O)/C(=C\C=C\[C@@H]([C@@H]([C@H]([C@H]([C@H]([C@@H]([C@@H]1C)OC(=O)C)C)O)C)O)C)/C
InChI InChI=1S/C43H58N4O12/c1-21-12-11-13-22(2)42(55)45-33-28(20-44-47-17-15-46(9)16-18-47)37(52)30-31(38(33)53)36(51)26(6)40-32(30)41(54)43(8,59-40)57-19-14-29(56-10)23(3)39(58-27(7)48)25(5)35(50)24(4)34(21)49/h11-14,19-21,23-25,29,34-35,39,49-53H,15-18H2,1-10H3,(H,45,55)/b12-11+,19-14+,22-13-,44-20+/t21-,23+,24+,25+,29-,34-,35+,39+,43-/m0/s1
InChI Key JQXXHWHPUNPDRT-WLSIYKJHSA-N
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Summary of Clinical Use Click here for help
Used in the treatment of tuberculosis and related mycobacterial infections. This drug is approved by the US FDA using its USAN, rifampin. There is no information regarding approval for clinical use of this drug on the European Medicines Agency website. Individual national approval agencies may have granted marketing authorisation. For example, this drug has been approved in the UK since 2005.
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Inhibitis DNA-dependent RNA polymerase, leading to the suppression of RNA synthesis and cell death.
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