Also known as L-Leucine, N-formyl-, (1S,3Z,6Z)-1-[[(2S,3S)-3-hexyl-4-oxo-2-oxetanyl]methyl]-3,6-dodecadien-1-yl ester, L-Leucine, N-formyl-, (1S,3Z,6Z)-1-[[(2S,3S)-3-hexyl-4-oxo-2-oxetanyl]methyl]-3,6-dodecadienyl ester, (-)-Lipstatin
Lipstatin is a potent, irreversible inhibitor of pancreatic lipase. It is a natural product that was first isolated from the actinobacterium Streptomyces toxytricini.
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Lipstatin is a potent, irreversible inhibitor of pancreatic lipase. It is a natural product that was first isolated from the actinobacterium Streptomyces toxytricini.
The popular antiobesity drug orlistat (trade names Xenical and alli) is a saturated derivative of lipstatin.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).