One of a group of compounds known under the general designation of resorcylic acid lactones. Cis, trans, dextro and levo forms have been isolated from the fungus Gibberella zeae (formerly Fusarium graminearum). They have estrogenic activity, cause toxicity in livestock as feed contaminant, and have been used as anabolic or estrogen substitutes.
Zearalenone has been studied across 16 research domains including 🧬 Hormones, 🔬 Oncology, 🫁 Liver & Detox, 🦠 Gut & Microbiome, 🔬 Inflammation. The primary research focus is 🧬 Hormones with 21% of studies addressing this area.
The following compounds share molecular targets with Zearalenone, based on binding affinity data from BindingDB and ChEMBL. Sorted by shared target overlap.
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