Malic Acid

Malic Acid

SCHEMBL3229201

O.O=C(O)CC(O)C(=O)O.O=C(O)CC(O)C(=O)O

nearest known ligand 0.94

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Known targets — ChEMBL curated mechanism

CACNA1CCACNA1DCACNA1FCACNA1SDRD2HTR1BHTR1DHTR1F

The experimentally established mechanism targets of Malic 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
SMN1; SMN2 Q16637 1/20 0.94
OR51E2 Q9H255 1/20 0.58
SLC22A6 Q4U2R8 1/20 0.53
TET2 Q6N021 6/20 0.52
TET3 O43151 2/20 0.52
TET1 Q8NFU7 1/20 0.52
KDM4A O75164 2/20 0.50
KDM4C Q9H3R0 2/20 0.50
KDM2A Q9Y2K7 2/20 0.50
TDP1 Q9NUW8 1/20 0.50
GABRR1 P24046 2/20 0.43
LMNA P02545 1/20 0.43
KMO O15229 1/20 0.41

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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
Malic Acid SCHEMBL30566736 1.00 SMN1; SMN2 (0.94) SMN1; SMN2OR51E2SLC22A6TET2TET3
Malic Acid SCHEMBL990702 1.00 SMN1; SMN2 (0.94) SMN1; SMN2OR51E2SLC22A6TET2TET3
Malic Acid SCHEMBL22360982 1.00 SMN1; SMN2 (0.94) SMN1; SMN2OR51E2SLC22A6TET2TET3
Malic Acid SCHEMBL9312234 1.00 SMN1; SMN2 (0.94) SMN1; SMN2OR51E2SLC22A6TET2TET3
Malic Acid SCHEMBL17135308 0.97 SMN1; SMN2 (0.88) SMN1; SMN2OR51E2SLC22A6TET2TET3
Malic Acid SCHEMBL4269585 0.97 SMN1; SMN2 (0.88) SMN1; SMN2OR51E2SLC22A6TET2TET3
Malic Acid SCHEMBL9166463 0.97 SMN1; SMN2 (0.88) SMN1; SMN2OR51E2SLC22A6TET2TET3
Malic Acid SCHEMBL7573228 0.97 SMN1; SMN2 (0.88) SMN1; SMN2OR51E2SLC22A6TET2TET3
Malic Acid SCHEMBL7574683 0.97 SMN1; SMN2 (0.88) SMN1; SMN2OR51E2SLC22A6TET2TET3
Malic Acid SCHEMBL10884230 0.97 SMN1; SMN2 (0.88) SMN1; SMN2OR51E2SLC22A6TET2TET3

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

PatentTitleAssigneePublishedPriorityFilingCountryStatus
WO-2026098867-A1 OXIDATIVE HAIR BRIGHTENING BY MEANS OF PERSULFATE, DICARBOXYLIC ACID, AND CITRULLINE HENKEL AG & CO. KGAA (DE) 2026-05-15 WO disclosed
EP-4630123-A1 MULTI-COMPONENT PACKAGING UNIT COMPRISING A FIRST PREPARATION (A) HAVING PEROXODISULPHATE, DI- OR TRICARBOXYLIC ACID AND AMINO ACID AND A SECOND PREPARATION (B) HAVING CARBAMIDE PEROXIDE Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (DE) 2025-10-15 EP disclosed
EP-4345093-B1 A PROCESS METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING QUINOLONES INTERMEDIATES BY USE OF A MICROREACTOR ZHEJIANG MED XINCHANG PHARM (CN) 2025-05-14 EP disclosed
EP-4514306-A1 OXIDATIVE HAIR-LIGHTENING AGENTS HAVING IMPROVED APPLICATION PROPERTIES FOR BLEACHING HAIR ROOTS Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (DE) 2025-03-05 EP disclosed
EP-4475813-A1 OXIDATIVE HAIR TREATMENT AGENT WITH A CONTROLLED HEAT DEVELOPMENT BASED ON ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CONTENTS Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (DE) 2024-12-18 EP disclosed
US-20240390245-A1 OXIDATIVE HAIR TREATMENT AGENT WITH A CONTROLLED HEAT DEVELOPMENT BASED ON ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CONTENTS HENKEL AG & CO. KGAA (DE) 2024-11-28 US disclosed
WO-2024120663-A1 MULTI-COMPONENT PACKAGING UNIT COMPRISING A FIRST PREPARATION (A) HAVING PEROXODISULPHATE, DI- OR TRICARBOXYLIC ACID AND AMINO ACID AND A SECOND PREPARATION (B) HAVING CARBAMIDE PEROXIDE HENKEL AG & CO. KGAA (DE) 2024-06-13 WO disclosed
EP-4345093-A1 A PROCESS METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING QUINOLONES INTERMEDIATES BY USE OF A MICROREACTOR ZheJiang Medicine Co., Ltd. Xinchang Pharmaceutical Factory (CN) 2024-04-03 EP disclosed
US-20240092726-A1 PROCESS METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING QUINOLONES INTERMEDIATES BY USE OF A MICROREACTOR ZHEJIANG CHANGHAI PHARMACEUTICALS CO., LTD. (CN) 2024-03-21 US disclosed
WO-2023208489-A1 OXIDATIVE HAIR-LIGHTENING AGENTS HAVING IMPROVED APPLICATION PROPERTIES FOR BLEACHING HAIR ROOTS HENKEL AG & CO. KGAA (DE) 2023-11-02 WO disclosed
US-20170340553-A1 PASTE-LIKE BLEACHING AGENT AND METHOD FOR GENTLE OXIDATIVE HAIR LIGHTENING HENKEL AG & CO. KGAA (DE) 2017-11-30 US disclosed
US-20120157492-A1 ANTIBIOTIC DRUG TAIGEN BIOTECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. (TW) 2012-06-21 US disclosed
CN-101618038-B Use of compounds in the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections TAIGEN BIOTECHNOLOGY (CN) 2011-12-07 CN disclosed
WO-2010009014-A2 ANTIBIOTIC DRUG TAIGEN BIOTECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. (TW) 2010-01-21 WO disclosed
CN-101618038-A Treatment of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacterial Infections TAIGEN BIOTECHNOLOGY CO LTD 2010-01-06 CN disclosed
EP-1825763-B1 Method of removing nitric acid from aqueous liquid and method of producing drinks ITO EN LTD (JP) 2009-11-04 EP disclosed
EP-1825763-A1 Method of removing nitric acid from aqueous liquid and method of producing drinks Ito En, Ltd. (JP) 2007-08-29 EP disclosed
EP-0081236-B1 A COMPOUND SEASONING COMPOSITION, A PROCESS FOR ITS PRODUCTION AND ITS USE AS A FOOD COMPONENT AJINOMOTO CO., INC. (JP) 1986-04-23 EP disclosed
US-4563359-A MIXTURE OF GLUTAMIC ACID WITH SODIUM AND POTASSIUM SALTS AJINOMOTO COMPANY, LIMITED (JP) 1986-01-07 US disclosed
EP-0081236-A1 A compound seasoning composition, a process for its production and its use as a food component AJINOMOTO CO., INC. (JP) 1983-06-15 EP 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-20120157492-A1 ANTIBIOTIC DRUG MAL2, ME1, ACE SMN1; SMN2 3851/4885OR51E2 2435/4885SLC22A6 806/4885
US-20240390245-A1 OXIDATIVE HAIR TREATMENT AGENT WITH A CONTROLLED HEAT DEVELOPMENT BASED ON ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CONTENTS GPX4, TYR, GPX1 SMN1; SMN2 4232/4885OR51E2 2122/4885SLC22A6 1903/4885
US-20240092726-A1 PROCESS METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING QUINOLONES INTERMEDIATES BY USE OF A MICROREACTOR QTRT2, QTRT1, TERT SMN1; SMN2 2644/4885OR51E2 2446/4885SLC22A6 4159/4885

“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.