General
Preferred name
EPICATECHIN
Synonyms
(-)-EPICATECHIN ()
(-)-Epicatechol ()
L-Epicatechin ()
(-)-Epicatechin(-)-Epicatechol ()
epi-Catechin ()
EPICATECHIN, (-) ()
(-)Epicatechin ()
L-Epicatechin, (-)-Epicatechol ()
Epi-catechol ()
NSC-81161 ()
L-acacatechin ()
Epicatechol ()
(-)-epi catechin ()
P&D ID
PD002152
CAS
490-46-0
2545-08-6
17334-50-8
Tags
natural product
drug candidate
nuisance
available
Drug indication
Duchenne dystrophy
Friedreich's ataxia
Drug Status
investigational
Max Phase
2.0
Probe control
Probe control not defined
Orthogonal probes
0
No orthogonal probes found
Similar probes
0
No structurally similar probes found
Structure formats
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Description
(extracted from source data)
DESCRIPTION
(-)-Epicatechin is a natural bitter-tasting compound that is present in plants such as Visnea mocanera and Litsea rotundifolia.
Preliminary evidence suggests that it behaves as a β-arrestin-biased agonist at the apelin receptor, with no effect on forskolin-stimulated cAMP production . (GtoPdb)
Preliminary evidence suggests that it behaves as a β-arrestin-biased agonist at the apelin receptor, with no effect on forskolin-stimulated cAMP production . (GtoPdb)
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Cell lines
1
Organisms
0
Compound Sets
14
AdooQ Bioactive Compound Library
Cayman Chemical Bioactives
ChEMBL Drugs
Concise Guide to Pharmacology 2023/24
DrugBank
DrugMAP
EU-OPENSCREEN Bioactive Compound Library
Guide to Pharmacology
MedChem Express Bioactive Compound Library
Nuisance compounds in cellular assays
ReFrame library
Selleckchem Bioactive Compound Library
TargetMol Bioactive Compound Library
The Spectrum Collection
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free of charge
External IDs
42
Properties
(calculated by RDKit )
Molecular Weight
290.08
Hydrogen Bond Acceptors
6
Hydrogen Bond Donors
5
Rotatable Bonds
1
Ring Count
3
Aromatic Ring Count
2
cLogP
1.55
TPSA
110.38
Fraction CSP3
0.2
Chiral centers
2.0
Largest ring
6.0
QED
0.51
Structural alerts
1
Nonspecific/NOS
IMP
Nuisance compounds in cellular assays
Custom attributes
(extracted from source data)
Pathway
Immunology/Inflammation
Apoptosis
Metabolic Enzyme/Protease
Target
COX
Endogenous Metabolite
Ferroptosis
antioxidant
Source data