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emetine   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 11087

PDB Ligand
Compound class: Natural product
Comment: Emetine is a plant metabolite from ipecac root.
2D Structure
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2D Structure

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Physico-chemical Properties
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Physico-chemical Properties

Calculated molecular properties are available for small molecules and natural products (not peptides). Properties were generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/). All properties were selected to enable the prediction of the Lipinski Rule-of-Five profile or ‘druglikeness’ for each ligand. For more info on each category see the help pages.

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Hydrogen bond acceptors 2
Hydrogen bond donors 1
Rotatable bonds 7
Topological polar surface area 52.19
Molecular weight 480.3
XLogP 4.35
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0

Generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/)
SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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SMILES / InChI / InChIKey

SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification) A specification for unambiguously describing the structure of chemical molecules using short ASCII strings. Canonical SMILES specify a unique representation of the 2D structure without chiral or isotopic specifications. Isomeric SMILES include chiral specification and isotopes.

Standard InChI (IUPAC International Chemical Identifier) and InChIKey InChI is a non-proprietary, standard, textual identifier for chemical substances designed to facilitate linking of information and database searching. An InChIKey is a simplified version of a full InChI, designed for easier web searching.

Generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/)

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Canonical SMILES CC[C@H]1CN2CCc3c([C@@H]2C[C@@H]1C[C@H]1NCCc2c1cc(OC)c(c2)OC)cc(c(c3)OC)OC
Isomeric SMILES CC[C@H]1CN2CCc3c([C@@H]2C[C@@H]1C[C@H]1NCCc2c1cc(OC)c(c2)OC)cc(c(c3)OC)OC
InChI InChI=1S/C29H40N2O4/c1-6-18-17-31-10-8-20-14-27(33-3)29(35-5)16-23(20)25(31)12-21(18)11-24-22-15-28(34-4)26(32-2)13-19(22)7-9-30-24/h13-16,18,21,24-25,30H,6-12,17H2,1-5H3/t18-,21-,24+,25-/m0/s1
InChI Key AUVVAXYIELKVAI-CKBKHPSWSA-N

Generated using the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) (Willighagen EL et al. Journal of Cheminformatics vol. 9:33. 2017, doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0220-4; https://cdk.github.io/)
Bioactivity Comments
Emetine inhibits protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells. It also has reported antiviral activity. Although the antiviral mechanism is not fully resolved, it may involve blocking viral progress through the normal endocytic pathway [3-4].

Emetine has been reported to rescue SARS-CoV-2 infected Vero-E6 cells from death with an EC50 of <10 nM in plaque and CellTiter-Glo assays [2].

DrugMatrix in vitro pharmacology data indicates that emetine interacts with alpha adrenergic receptors and L type calcium channels [1].