The Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) ontology is downloaded weekly from EMBL-EBI at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/. The data is made available under the Creative Commons License (CC BY 3.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). For more information see: Degtyarenko et al. (2008) ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest. Nucleic Acids Res. 36, D344–D350.
A member of the class of 2-pyranones that is 5,6-dihydro-2H-pyran-2-one in which the hydrogens at positions 3, 5S and 6R are replaced by (2S,3S)-3-methyloxiran-2-yl, hydroxy and methyl groups, respectively. It is a fungal metabolite isolated from Aspergillus melleus and exhibits nematicidal, antibacterial and antifungal properties.