Known targets — ChEMBL curated mechanism
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The experimentally established mechanism targets of Acetic Acid. The predicted profile below is derived independently by chemical similarity — agreement is a validation signal, a miss is honest.
Predicted protein targets (top 20)
| gene | UniProt | supporting neighbours | confidence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▸ | MAP2K1 | Q02750 | 20/20 | 0.68 |
| ▸ | MAP2K2 | P36507 | 17/20 | 0.68 |
| ▸ | BRAF | P15056 | 2/20 | 0.68 |
| ▸ | CHRM2 | P08172 | 1/20 | 0.68 |
| ▸ | CHRM1 | P11229 | 1/20 | 0.68 |
| ▸ | DRD1 | P21728 | 1/20 | 0.68 |
| ▸ | TBXA2R | P21731 | 1/20 | 0.68 |
| ▸ | SLC6A2 | P23975 | 1/20 | 0.68 |
| ▸ | SLC6A4 | P31645 | 1/20 | 0.68 |
| ▸ | ADRA1A | P35348 | 1/20 | 0.68 |
| ▸ | OPRM1 | P35372 | 1/20 | 0.68 |
| ▸ | DRD3 | P35462 | 1/20 | 0.68 |
| ▸ | ACTR3 | P61158 | 1/20 | 0.68 |
| ▸ | SLC6A3 | Q01959 | 1/20 | 0.68 |
| ▸ | KCNH2 | Q12809 | 1/20 | 0.68 |
| ▸ | ABCB11 | O95342 | 1/20 | 0.42 |
| ▸ | NQO2 | P16083 | 1/20 | 0.42 |
| ▸ | SMC2 | O95347 | 1/20 | 0.37 |
| ▸ | EGFR | P00533 | 1/20 | 0.37 |
| ▸ | CSNK2A2 | P19784 | 1/20 | 0.37 |
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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.
| Compound | similarity | top predicted | shared targets | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acetic Acid SCHEMBL1488320 | 1.00 | MAP2K1 (0.68) | MAP2K1MAP2K2BRAFCHRM2CHRM1 | |
| Acetic Acid SCHEMBL1489186 | 1.00 | MAP2K1 (0.68) | MAP2K1MAP2K2BRAFCHRM2CHRM1 | |
| Acetic Acid SCHEMBL30220963 | 1.00 | MAP2K1 (0.68) | MAP2K1MAP2K2BRAFCHRM2CHRM1 | |
| SCHEMBL1488208 | 0.98 | MAP2K1 (0.71) | MAP2K1MAP2K2BRAFCHRM2CHRM1 | |
| SCHEMBL30220921 | 0.98 | MAP2K1 (0.71) | MAP2K1MAP2K2BRAFCHRM2CHRM1 | |
| SCHEMBL1488341 | 0.98 | MAP2K1 (0.71) | MAP2K1MAP2K2BRAFCHRM2CHRM1 | |
| SCHEMBL30220827 | 0.98 | MAP2K1 (0.71) | MAP2K1MAP2K2BRAFCHRM2CHRM1 | |
| SCHEMBL1488322 | 0.89 | MAP2K1 (0.57) | MAP2K1MAP2K2BRAFCHRM2CHRM1 | |
| SCHEMBL1489187 | 0.89 | MAP2K1 (0.57) | MAP2K1MAP2K2BRAFCHRM2CHRM1 | |
| SCHEMBL29413543 | 0.89 | MAP2K1 (0.57) | MAP2K1MAP2K2BRAFCHRM2CHRM1 |
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 3 patents. claimed = in the patent's claims; disclosed = body only.
| Patent | Title | Assignee | Published | Priority | Filing | Country | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US-20250100966-A1 | MEK INHIBITORS AND METHODS OF THEIR USE | EXELIXIS INC (US) | 2025-03-27 | — | — | US | disclosed |
| US-11597699-B2 | MEK inhibitors and methods of their use | EXELIXIS, INC. (US) | 2023-03-07 | — | — | US | disclosed |
| CN-109053523-B | Azetidines as MEK inhibitors for the treatment of proliferative diseases | 埃克塞利希斯股份有限公司 | 2022-03-25 | — | — | CN | 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 (2 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.
| Patent | Title | Text reads most about | Predicted target · text-rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| US-20250100966-A1 | MEK INHIBITORS AND METHODS OF THEIR USE | BRAF, NRAS, KRAS | MAP2K1 53/4885MAP2K2 51/4885BRAF 1/4885 |
| US-11597699-B2 | MEK inhibitors and methods of their use | BRAF, NRAS, MAP3K20 | MAP2K1 52/4885MAP2K2 49/4885BRAF 1/4885 |
“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.