Known targets — ChEMBL curated mechanism
ACVR1ADORA1ADORA2AADORA2BADORA3ESR1ESR2FLT3GRIN1GRIN2AGRIN2BGRIN2CGRIN2DGRIN3AGRIN3BGSC1HRH1HTR7IDH1IDH2IRAK1JAK1JAK2JAK3MEN1OPRM1P2RX3PDE5ASCN10ASCN11ASCN1ASCN2ASCN3ASCN4ASCN5ASCN7ASCN8ASCN9ASIGMAR1SLC6A2SYKTACR1TOP2ATYK2
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 10)
| gene | UniProt | supporting neighbours | confidence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▸ | OPRM1 known ✓ | P35372 | 16/20 | 0.45 |
| ▸ | OGFRL1 | Q5TC84 | 13/20 | 0.45 |
| ▸ | OPRL1 | P41146 | 6/20 | 0.45 |
| ▸ | OPRD1 | P41143 | 3/20 | 0.45 |
| ▸ | OPRK1 | P41145 | 3/20 | 0.45 |
| ▸ | LMNA | P02545 | 2/20 | 0.32 |
| ▸ | DRD2 | P14416 | 2/20 | 0.32 |
| ▸ | DRD3 | P35462 | 2/20 | 0.32 |
| ▸ | DRD4 | P21917 | 1/20 | 0.32 |
| ▸ | TP53 | P04637 | 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.
| Compound | similarity | top predicted | shared targets | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCHEMBL2976491 | 0.90 | OPRM1 (0.52) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| Citric Acid SCHEMBL2968844 | 0.89 | OPRM1 (0.48) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| Citric Acid SCHEMBL2966241 | 0.86 | OPRM1 (0.45) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| Citric Acid SCHEMBL2966341 | 0.86 | OPRM1 (0.44) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| Citric Acid SCHEMBL2966707 | 0.85 | OPRK1 (0.31) | OPRD1OPRK1DRD2DRD3DRD4 | |
| Citric Acid SCHEMBL2976836 | 0.84 | ALDH1A1 (0.32) | OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| SCHEMBL2970907 | 0.84 | OPRM1 (0.62) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| Citric Acid SCHEMBL2965473 | 0.79 | OPRM1 (0.52) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| SCHEMBL2965466 | 0.79 | OPRM1 (0.54) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| Citric Acid SCHEMBL2976393 | 0.79 | OPRM1 (0.50) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 |
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 10 patents. claimed = in the patent's claims; disclosed = body only.
| Patent | Title | Assignee | Published | Priority | Filing | Country | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EP-1778680-B1 | SPIROCYCLIC CYCLOHEXANE DERIVATIVES | GRUENENTHAL GMBH (DE) | 2008-10-08 | — | — | EP | claimed |
| US-20070213351-A1 | Spirocyclic cyclohexane compounds | GRUENENTHAL GMBH (DE) | 2007-09-13 | — | — | US | claimed |
| US-7776848-B2 | Spirocyclic cyclohexane compounds | GRUENENTHAL GMBH (DE) | 2010-08-17 | — | — | US | disclosed |
| EP-1778680-B1 | SPIROCYCLIC CYCLOHEXANE DERIVATIVES | GRUENENTHAL GMBH (DE) | 2008-10-08 | — | — | EP | disclosed |
| EP-1641535-A4 | 17-ACETAMIDO-4-AZASTEROID DERIVATIVES AS ANDROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS | MERCK & CO INC (US) | 2008-05-14 | — | — | EP | disclosed |
| US-20070213351-A1 | Spirocyclic cyclohexane compounds | GRUENENTHAL GMBH (DE) | 2007-09-13 | — | — | US | disclosed |
| EP-1778680-A2 | SPIROCYCLIC CYCLOHEXANE DERIVATIVES | Grünenthal GmbH (DE) | 2007-05-02 | — | — | EP | disclosed |
| EP-1641535-A2 | 17-ACETAMIDO-4-AZASTEROID DERIVATIVES AS ANDROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS | Merck & Co., Inc. (US) | 2006-04-05 | — | — | EP | disclosed |
| WO-2006018184-A2 | SPIROCYCLIC CYCLOHEXANE DERIVATIVES | Grünenthal GmbH (DE) | 2006-02-23 | — | — | WO | disclosed |
| WO-2005005380-A2 | 17-ACETAMIDO-4-AZASTEROID DERIVATIVES AS ANDROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS | MERCK & CO., INC. (US) | 2005-01-20 | — | — | WO | 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 (1 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-20070213351-A1 | Spirocyclic cyclohexane compounds | PKD1, PKD2, NR3C2 | OPRM1 768/4885OGFRL1 1860/4885OPRL1 558/4885 |
“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.