Citric Acid

Citric Acid

SCHEMBL107372

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nearest known ligand 0.73

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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 13)

geneUniProtsupporting neighboursconfidence
CA4 P22748 1/20 0.73
ALDH1A1 P00352 1/20 0.50
HMGCR P04035 1/20 0.39
CHRM1 P11229 1/20 0.39
TBXA2R P21731 1/20 0.39
ADRA1A P35348 1/20 0.39
ACLY P53396 3/20 0.32
CYP2D6 P10635 1/20 0.32
TSHR P16473 1/20 0.32
CYP2C19 P33261 1/20 0.32
HIF1A Q16665 1/20 0.32
CPT2 P23786 1/20 0.31
SLC13A5 Q86YT5 1/20 0.30

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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 SCHEMBL107371 0.98 CA4 (0.70) CA4ALDH1A1HMGCRCHRM1TBXA2R
Citric Acid SCHEMBL5471630 0.98 CA4 (0.76) CA4ALDH1A1HMGCRCHRM1TBXA2R
Citric Acid SCHEMBL1410612 0.96 CA4 (0.67) CA4ALDH1A1HMGCRCHRM1TBXA2R
Citric Acid SCHEMBL18263181 0.95 CA4 (0.73) CA4ALDH1A1HMGCRCHRM1TBXA2R
Citric Acid SCHEMBL9319655 0.95 CA4 (0.73) CA4ALDH1A1HMGCRCHRM1TBXA2R
Citric Acid SCHEMBL475574 0.95 CA4 (0.73) CA4ALDH1A1HMGCRCHRM1TBXA2R
Citric Acid SCHEMBL1301477 0.95 CA4 (0.73) CA4ALDH1A1HMGCRCHRM1TBXA2R
Citric Acid SCHEMBL21569387 0.95 CA4 (0.73) CA4ALDH1A1HMGCRCHRM1TBXA2R
Citric Acid SCHEMBL21569398 0.95 CA4 (0.73) CA4ALDH1A1HMGCRCHRM1TBXA2R
Citric Acid SCHEMBL2227446 0.95 CA4 (0.73) CA4ALDH1A1HMGCRCHRM1TBXA2R

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

PatentTitleAssigneePublishedPriorityFilingCountryStatus
US-11124418-B2 Activated carbons with high surface areas and methods of making same ADVEN INDUSTRIES, INC. (CA) 2021-09-21 US claimed
CN-110534730-A The preparation method of lithium titanate material GOLINK TECH HUZHOU CO LTD 2019-12-03 CN claimed
US-20190202702-A1 Activated Carbons with High Surface Areas and Methods of Making Same Adven Industries Inc. (CA) 2019-07-04 US claimed
US-9962628-B2 Use of citrate solution for affinity chromatographic purification of CRP using phosphocholine and derivatives thereof PENTRACOR GMBH (DE) 2018-05-08 US claimed
EP-3083665-B1 USE OF A CITRATE SOLUTION FOR THE AFFINITY-CHROMATOGRAPHIC PURIFICATION OF CRP USING PHOSPHOCHOLIN AND ITS DERIVATIVES PENTRACOR GMBH (DE) 2018-01-10 EP claimed
US-20170319982-A1 USE OF A CITRATE SOLUTION FOR AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHIC PURIFICATION OF CRP USING PHOSPHOCHOLINE AND DERIVATIVES THEREOF PENTRACOR GMBH (DE) 2017-11-09 US claimed
WO-2013028574-A2 AQUEOUS LITHIUM AIR BATTERIES POLYPLUS BATTERY COMPANY (US) 2013-02-28 WO claimed
US-6855678-B2 Medical residue treatment composition comprising a lithium salt WHITELEY CORPORATION PTY LTD (AU) 2005-02-15 US claimed
US-20030161758-A1 Medical residue treatment composition WHITELEY CORPORATION PTY LTD (AU) 2003-08-28 US claimed
WO-2002007789-A1 MEDICAL RESIDUE TREATMENT COMPOSITION WHITELEY REGINALD KEITH (AU) 2002-01-31 WO claimed
JP-6273938-A None JP disclosed
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-6855678-B2 Medical residue treatment composition comprising a lithium salt WHITELEY CORPORATION PTY LTD (AU) 2005-02-15 US disclosed
US-20030161758-A1 Medical residue treatment composition WHITELEY CORPORATION PTY LTD (AU) 2003-08-28 US disclosed
WO-2002007789-A1 MEDICAL RESIDUE TREATMENT COMPOSITION WHITELEY REGINALD KEITH (AU) 2002-01-31 WO disclosed
US-5453472-A Antideposit agents for polymerization reactor walls BASF AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (DE) 1995-09-26 US disclosed
JP-H06273938-A METHOD FOR LOWERING PH OF WASTE DEVELOPER OF PHOTOSENSITIVE LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE FUJI PHOTO FILM CO LTD 1994-09-30 JP 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 (3 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-20170319982-A1 USE OF A CITRATE SOLUTION FOR AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHIC PURIFICATION OF CRP USING PHOSPHOCHOLINE AND DERIVATIVES THEREOF PHOSPHO1, ACP1, ALB CA4 353/4885ALDH1A1 4682/4885HMGCR 257/4885
US-20260118767-A1 REVERSE PATTERNING PROCESS EFNA1, EPHA4, ETV6 CA4 281/4885ALDH1A1 4452/4885HMGCR 3483/4885
US-20260044081-A1 COMPOSITION FOR FORMING SILICON-CONTAINING RESIST FILM AND PATTERNING PROCESS SMC1A, SPOUT1, LBR CA4 1681/4885ALDH1A1 1558/4885HMGCR 2061/4885

“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.