doxycycline   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 6464

Synonyms: BMY-28689 | Monodox® | Vibramycin®
Approved drug PDB Ligand Immunopharmacology Ligand Antimalarial Ligand
doxycycline is an approved drug (FDA (1967), UK (2000))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Doxycycline is a tetracycline based antibacterial. It has been repurposed as a low-potency human metalloprotease inhibitor for periodontitis and is also used as an antimalarial therapy.
There are a number of salt forms in PubChem. The chemical structure we show here matches that of the consensus structure in PubChem, listed in the links table below. The DrugBank, ChEBI, ChEMBL and PDB entries for doxycycline show a different structure.
Doxycycline is one of the key access group antibacterials on the World Health Organization's Model List of Essential Medicines (link provided in the Classification table, under the Summary tab below).

The Malaria tab on this ligand page provides additional curator comments of relevance to the Guide to MALARIA PHARMACOLOGY.
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2D Structure
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Physico-chemical Properties
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Hydrogen bond acceptors 9
Hydrogen bond donors 6
Rotatable bonds 2
Topological polar surface area 181.62
Molecular weight 444.15
XLogP 0.39
No. Lipinski's rules broken 1
SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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Canonical SMILES CN(C1C(=O)C(=C(C2(C1C(O)C1C(C)c3cccc(c3C(=C1C2=O)O)O)O)O)C(=O)N)C
Isomeric SMILES CN([C@@H]1C(=O)C(=C([C@@]2([C@H]1[C@@H](O)[C@@H]1[C@@H](C)c3cccc(c3C(=C1C2=O)O)O)O)O)C(=O)N)C
InChI InChI=1S/C22H24N2O8/c1-7-8-5-4-6-9(25)11(8)16(26)12-10(7)17(27)14-15(24(2)3)18(28)13(21(23)31)20(30)22(14,32)19(12)29/h4-7,10,14-15,17,25-27,30,32H,1-3H3,(H2,23,31)/t7-,10+,14+,15-,17-,22-/m0/s1
InChI Key SGKRLCUYIXIAHR-AKNGSSGZSA-N
Classification Click here for help
Compound class Synthetic organic
Ligand families/groups Antimalarial ligands
Approved drug? Yes (FDA (1967), UK (2000))
WHO Essential Medicine WHO Essential Medicines List (EML) (23rd List, 2023). Access PDF version.
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IUPAC Name Click here for help
(4S,4aR,5S,5aR,6R,12aR)-4-(dimethylamino)-1,5,10,11,12a-pentahydroxy-6-methyl-3,12-dioxo-4a,5,5a,6-tetrahydro-4H-tetracene-2-carboxamide
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INN number INN
2125 doxycycline
Synonyms Click here for help
BMY-28689 | Monodox® | Vibramycin®
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Specialist databases
Antibiotic DB Antibiotic DB Database logo Doxycycline
Other databases
CAS Registry No. 564-25-0 (source: PubChem)
ChEBI CHEBI:50845
ChEMBL Ligand CHEMBL1433
DrugBank Ligand DB00254
GtoPdb PubChem SID 178103078
PubChem CID 54671203
RCSB PDB Ligand DXT
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