coptisine
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Coptisine is an alkaloid found in Chinese goldthread (Coptis chinensis), greater celandine, and opium. Famous for the bitter taste that it produces, it is used in Chinese herbal medicine along with the related compound berberine for digestive disorders caused by bacterial infections.
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- Mass
- 320.092
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- canonical SMILES
- C1C[N+]2=C(C=C3C=CC4=C(C3=C2)OCO4)C5=CC6=C(C=C51)OCO6
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- Coptisine
- chemical formula
- C₁₉H₁₄NO₄⁺
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Coptisine is an alkaloid found in Chinese goldthread (Coptis chinensis), greater celandine, and opium. Famous for the bitter taste that it produces, it is used in Chinese herbal medicine along with the related compound berberine for digestive disorders caused by bacterial infections.
==Biosynthesis== Coptisine is produced from tetrahydrocoptisine by an oxidation reaction catalysed by the enzyme tetrahydroberberine oxidase.