cefoxitin   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 10937

Synonyms: Cenomycin® | CFX | Mefoxin® | MK-306 | MK306
Approved drug PDB Ligand
cefoxitin is an approved drug (FDA (1978))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Cefoxitin is a parenteral, second-generation cephamycin, β-lactam antibacterial. The 7-alpha-methoxy functional group within the structure makes cefoxitin highly resistant to hydrolysis by some β-lactamases. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has acquired resistance to cefoxitin, via expression of the gene for penicillin binding protein 2a (PBP2a). Cefoxitin is active against a broad range of Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, including anaerobes. It is inactive against most strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and many strains of Enterobacter cloacae.
Click here for help

Ligand Activity Visualisation Charts

These are box plot that provide a unique visualisation, summarising all the activity data for a ligand taken from ChEMBL and GtoPdb across multiple targets and species. Click on a plot to see the median, interquartile range, low and high data points. A value of zero indicates that no data are available. A separate chart is created for each target, and where possible the algorithm tries to merge ChEMBL and GtoPdb targets by matching them on name and UniProt accession, for each available species. However, please note that inconsistency in naming of targets may lead to data for the same target being reported across multiple charts.

✖

View interactive charts of activity data across species
2D Structure
Click here for help

2D Structure

An image of the ligand's 2D structure. For small molecules with SMILES these are drawn using the NCI/CADD Chemical Identifier Resolver. Click on the image to access the chemical structure search tool with the ligand pre-loaded in the structure editor. For other types of ligands, e.g. longer nucleotides and peptides, a manually drawn representation of the molecule may be provided.

✖
Click here for structure editor
Physico-chemical Properties
Click here for help

Physico-chemical Properties

Calculated molecular properties are available for small molecules and natural products (not peptides). Properties were generated using the CDK toolkit. 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.

✖
Hydrogen bond acceptors 10
Hydrogen bond donors 3
Rotatable bonds 9
Topological polar surface area 201.8
Molecular weight 427.05
XLogP -1.45
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0
SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
Click here for help

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.

✖
Canonical SMILES CO[C@@]1(NC(=O)Cc2cccs2)C(=O)N2[C@@H]1SCC(=C2C(=O)O)COC(=O)N
Isomeric SMILES CO[C@@]1(NC(=O)Cc2cccs2)C(=O)N2[C@@H]1SCC(=C2C(=O)O)COC(=O)N
InChI InChI=1S/C16H17N3O7S2/c1-25-16(18-10(20)5-9-3-2-4-27-9)13(23)19-11(12(21)22)8(6-26-15(17)24)7-28-14(16)19/h2-4,14H,5-7H2,1H3,(H2,17,24)(H,18,20)(H,21,22)/t14-,16+/m1/s1
InChI Key WZOZEZRFJCJXNZ-ZBFHGGJFSA-N
No information available.
Summary of Clinical Use Click here for help
Cefoxitin is indicated for infections cuased by susceptible bacteria, including Staphylococcal skin infections, urinary tract infections, bronchitis, tonsillitis, ear infections, bacterial pneumonia, sepsis, bone and joint infections, abdominal infections and abscesses and gonorrhea.
External links Click here for help
For extended ADME data see the following:

Drugs.com