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 cyclodepsipeptide with formula C27H41N3O5. It was originally isolated from the fungus Beauveria sp. FO-6979 during a screening program for inhibitors of lipid droplet accumulation in murine macrophages. It is an inhibitor of acyl-CoA: cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT) and effective at reducing atherogenic lesions of the artery and heart in mouse models.