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 4-pyridones that is aspernigrin A (2-benzyl-4-pyridone-5-carboxamide) in which the nitrogen of the carboxamide has been acylated by a (3S)-3-carboxybutanoyl group. It has been isolated from Aspergillus niger and several other Aspergillus species.