diroleuton   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 9775

Synonyms: 8,11,14-Eicosatrienoic acid | DGLA | dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid | DS107 | Homo-gamma-linolenic acid
PDB Ligand Immunopharmacology Ligand
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Diroleuton (dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid; DGLA) is a 20-carbon-chain fatty acid that is structurally very similar to arachadonic acid (AA). It competes with AA for binding to the substrate binding sites of the COX and lipoxygenase enzymes, and this effect reduces the production of inflammatory mediators (eicosanoids) from AA. DGLA can be converted to PGE1 and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), the latter being a precursor for the synthesis of series-3 prostaglandins, series-5 leukotrienes and series-3 thromboxanes.

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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 15
Topological polar surface area 37.3
Molecular weight 306.26
XLogP 8.68
No. Lipinski's rules broken 2

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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.

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Canonical SMILES CCCCCC=CCC=CCC=CCCCCCCC(=O)O
Isomeric SMILES CCCCC/C=C\C/C=C\C/C=C\CCCCCCC(=O)O
InChI InChI=1S/C20H34O2/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20(21)22/h6-7,9-10,12-13H,2-5,8,11,14-19H2,1H3,(H,21,22)/b7-6-,10-9-,13-12-
InChI Key HOBAELRKJCKHQD-QNEBEIHSSA-N

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Immunopharmacology Comments
DGLA acts as an immunomodulator with anti-inflammatory effects, although the precise molecular mechanism of action remains to be fully resolved.