The molecule is an organic disulfide resulting from the formal oxidative coupling of the thiol groups of N(1),N(8)-bis(glutathionyl)-spermidine from the insect-parasitic trypanosomatid Crithidia fasciculata. It derives from a trypanothione. It is a conjugate base of a trypanothione disulfide(1+).
(2S)-2-amino-5-[[(4R,23R)-4-[[(4S)-4-amino-4-carboxybutanoyl]amino]-5,8,19,22-tetraoxo-1,2-dithia-6,9,13,18,21-pentazacyclotetracos-23-yl]amino]-5-oxopentanoic acid