Citric Acid

Citric Acid

SCHEMBL106889

O=C(O)CC(O)(CC(=O)O)C(=O)[O-].c1ccc([I+]c2ccccc2)cc1

nearest known ligand 0.41

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Known targets — ChEMBL curated mechanism

ACVR1ADORA1ADORA2AADORA2BADORA3ESR1ESR2FLT3GRIN1GRIN2AGRIN2BGRIN2CGRIN2DGRIN3AGRIN3BGSC1GSK3AGSK3BHRH1HRH2HTR7IDH1IDH2IMPA1IRAK1JAK1JAK2JAK3MEN1OPRM1P2RX3PDE5ASCN10ASCN11ASCN1ASCN2ASCN3ASCN4ASCN5ASCN7ASCN8ASCN9ASIGMAR1SLC6A2SYKTACR1TOP2ATYK2

The experimentally established mechanism targets of Citric Acid. The predicted profile below is derived independently by chemical similarity — agreement is a validation signal, a miss is honest.

Predicted protein targets (top 16)

geneUniProtsupporting neighboursconfidence
MEN1 known ✓ O00255 1/20 0.36
CA4 P22748 2/20 0.41
SLC13A5 Q86YT5 7/20 0.41
CYP2C19 P33261 1/20 0.39
HIF1A Q16665 1/20 0.39
ALDH1A1 P00352 1/20 0.39
KDM4E B2RXH2 1/20 0.36
LMNA P02545 1/20 0.36
CYP1A2 P05177 1/20 0.36
CYP2D6 P10635 1/20 0.36
KMT2A Q03164 1/20 0.36
USP2 O75604 1/20 0.32
CES2 O00748 1/20 0.32
CES1 P23141 1/20 0.32
AKR1B1 P15121 1/20 0.32
CA2 P00918 1/20 0.32

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Similar compounds — the chemically nearest patent molecules

Nearest neighbours by Morgan-fingerprint cosine across the patent-compound collection, with each neighbour's top predicted target and the predicted targets it shares with this molecule.

Compoundsimilaritytop predictedshared targets
Citric Acid SCHEMBL108968 0.95 CA4 (0.50) CA4SLC13A5CYP2C19HIF1AALDH1A1
Citric Acid SCHEMBL106887 0.89 CA4 (0.55) CA4SLC13A5CYP2C19HIF1ACES2
Citric Acid SCHEMBL6238056 0.79 CA4 (0.45) CA4SLC13A5CYP2C19HIF1AALDH1A1
Citric Acid SCHEMBL32671251 0.79 CA4 (0.41) CA4SLC13A5CYP2C19HIF1AALDH1A1
Citric Acid SCHEMBL104572 0.79 CA4 (0.41) CA4SLC13A5CYP2C19HIF1AALDH1A1
Citric Acid SCHEMBL1684058 0.76 CA4 (0.59) CA4SLC13A5CYP2C19HIF1AALDH1A1
Citric Acid SCHEMBL7517100 0.76 CA4 (0.59) CA4SLC13A5CYP2C19HIF1AALDH1A1
Citric Acid SCHEMBL33988 0.76 CA4 (0.59) CA4SLC13A5CYP2C19HIF1AALDH1A1
Bicarbonate SCHEMBL105149 0.76 CA2 (0.46) CA4CYP2C19ALDH1A1KDM4ECES2
Citric Acid SCHEMBL5190913 0.76 CA4 (0.59) CA4SLC13A5CYP2C19HIF1AALDH1A1

Similarity is cosine over the 2,048-bit Morgan fingerprint (≈ Tanimoto). Identical fingerprints score 1.00.

Patent provenance — the patents this molecule appears in, and who filed them

Claimed or disclosed in 102 patents — showing the first 20. claimed = in the patent's claims; disclosed = body only.

PatentTitleAssigneePublishedPriorityFilingCountryStatus
US-20260118767-A1 REVERSE PATTERNING PROCESS SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 2026-04-30 US disclosed
US-20260044081-A1 COMPOSITION FOR FORMING SILICON-CONTAINING RESIST FILM AND PATTERNING PROCESS SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 2026-02-12 US disclosed
EP-4692941-A2 COMPOSITION FOR FORMING SILICON-CONTAINING RESIST FILM AND PATTERNING PROCESS Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP) 2026-02-11 EP disclosed
EP-4621486-A2 POLYVALENT AMMONIUM SALT COMPOUND, COMPOSITION FOR FORMING SILICON-CONTAINING RESIST UNDERLAYER FILM, AND PATTERNING PROCESS SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 2025-09-24 EP disclosed
US-20250289931-A1 POLYVALENT AMMONIUM SALT COMPOUND, COMPOSITION FOR FORMING SILICON-CONTAINING RESIST UNDERLAYER FILM, AND PATTERNING PROCESS SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 2025-09-18 US disclosed
EP-4592299-A1 SILICON-CONTAINING SULFONIUM SALT COMPOUND, COMPOSITION FOR FORMING A SILICON-CONTAINING RESIST UNDERLAYER FILM, AND PATTERNING PROCESS SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 2025-07-30 EP disclosed
US-20250237953-A1 SILICON-CONTAINING SULFONIUM SALT COMPOUND, COMPOSITION FOR FORMING A SILICON-CONTAINING RESIST UNDERLAYER FILM, AND PATTERNING PROCESS SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 2025-07-24 US disclosed
US-12332567-B2 Composition for forming silicon-containing resist underlayer film, patterning process, and silicon compound SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 2025-06-17 US disclosed
US-12332565-B2 Thermosetting iodine- and silicon-containing material, composition containing the material for forming resist underlayer film for EUV lithography, and patterning process SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 2025-06-17 US disclosed
CN-119331250-A Silicon-containing bottom anti-reflection coating composition and preparation method and application thereof 福建泓光半导体材料有限公司 2025-01-21 CN disclosed
EP-1845132-B1 Silicon-containing film-forming composition, silicon-containing film, silicon-containing film-bearing substrate, and patterning method SHINETSU CHEMICAL CO (JP) 2009-01-21 EP disclosed
US-20090011372-A1 SILICON-CONTAINING FILM-FORMING COMPOSITION, SILICON-CONTAINING FILM, SILICON-CONTAINING FILM-BEARING SUBSTRATE, AND PATTERNING METHOD SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 2009-01-08 US disclosed
EP-2011829-A1 Silicon-containing film-forming composition, silicon-containing film, silicon-containing film-bearing substrate, and patterning method Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP) 2009-01-07 EP disclosed
EP-2011830-A1 Silicon-containing film-forming composition, silicon-containing film, silicon-containing film-bearing substrate, and patterning method Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP) 2009-01-07 EP disclosed
EP-1867681-B1 Silicon-containing film-forming composition, silicon-containing film, silicon-containing film-bearing substrate, and patterning method SHINETSU CHEMICAL CO (JP) 2008-12-31 EP disclosed
US-20080274432-A1 SILICONE-CONTAINING FILM-FORMING COMPOSITION, SILICON-CONTAINING FILM, SILICON-CONTAINING FILM-BEARING SUBSTRATE, AND PATTERNING METHOD SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD. (JP) 2008-11-06 US disclosed
US-20080026322-A1 Hydrolytic condensation of organosilicon compound using acid and basic catalyst with Group 1a hydroxide, organic acid and solvent; efficiency patterning photoresist film SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD. 2008-01-31 US disclosed
EP-1867681-A1 Silicon-containing film-forming composition, silicon-containing film, silicon-containing film-bearing substrate, and patterning method Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP) 2007-12-19 EP disclosed
EP-1845132-A2 Silicon-containing film-forming composition, silicon-containing film, silicon-containing film-bearing substrate, and patterning method Shinetsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP) 2007-10-17 EP disclosed
US-20070238300-A1 Silicon-containing film-forming composition, silicon-containing film, silicon-containing film-bearing substrate, and patterning method SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD. 2007-10-11 US disclosed

Patent text — is the patent's own abstract consistent with the prediction?

For each of this compound's patents that has machine-readable text (6 of them — usually the abstract, not the full specification), we ask MedCPT which protein the text reads most about, and where the chemistry-predicted target lands among 4885 human targets. A high rank means the patent's own wording is consistent with the prediction — a weak, independent signal, not proof of activity.

PatentTitleText reads most aboutPredicted target · text-rank
US-12332567-B2 Composition for forming silicon-containing resist underlayer film, patterning process, and silicon compound SMC1A, CDH1, SMC4 MEN1 551/4885CA4 505/4885SLC13A5 3375/4885
US-20250289931-A1 POLYVALENT AMMONIUM SALT COMPOUND, COMPOSITION FOR FORMING SILICON-CONTAINING RESIST UNDERLAYER FILM, AND PATTERNING PROCESS ASH2L, PUF60, IDUA MEN1 2326/4885CA4 749/4885SLC13A5 1257/4885
US-12332565-B2 Thermosetting iodine- and silicon-containing material, composition containing the material for forming resist underlayer film for EUV lithography, and patterning process RPS4X, SIK3, MLX MEN1 719/4885CA4 1589/4885SLC13A5 2407/4885
US-20260118767-A1 REVERSE PATTERNING PROCESS EFNA1, EPHA4, ETV6 MEN1 56/4885CA4 281/4885SLC13A5 1710/4885
US-20260044081-A1 COMPOSITION FOR FORMING SILICON-CONTAINING RESIST FILM AND PATTERNING PROCESS SMC1A, SPOUT1, LBR MEN1 3287/4885CA4 1681/4885SLC13A5 3239/4885
US-20250237953-A1 SILICON-CONTAINING SULFONIUM SALT COMPOUND, COMPOSITION FOR FORMING A SILICON-CONTAINING RESIST UNDERLAYER FILM, AND PATTERNING PROCESS SMURF1, OSR1, SIK1 MEN1 1456/4885CA4 440/4885SLC13A5 1238/4885

“Text reads most about” is the patent abstract's nearest protein in MedCPT space (background-debiased). Only ~1.4% of patents have machine-readable text, so most compounds won't have this panel.