Known targets — ChEMBL curated mechanism
CACNA1CCACNA1DCACNA1FCACNA1SDPP4HTR1BHTR1D
The experimentally established mechanism targets of Benzoic 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▸ | HCRTR1 | O43613 | 1/20 | 0.43 |
| ▸ | MAOB | P27338 | 2/20 | 0.43 |
| ▸ | ALDH1A1 | P00352 | 4/20 | 0.42 |
| ▸ | SMN1; SMN2 | Q16637 | 2/20 | 0.42 |
| ▸ | LMNA | P02545 | 2/20 | 0.42 |
| ▸ | MAPT | P10636 | 1/20 | 0.42 |
| ▸ | HPGD | P15428 | 1/20 | 0.41 |
| ▸ | RAB9A | P51151 | 1/20 | 0.41 |
| ▸ | PGR | P06401 | 10/20 | 0.40 |
| ▸ | PKM | P14618 | 1/20 | 0.38 |
| ▸ | NPSR1 | Q6W5P4 | 1/20 | 0.38 |
| ▸ | CYP1A2 | P05177 | 1/20 | 0.38 |
| ▸ | CYP2C9 | P11712 | 1/20 | 0.38 |
| ▸ | CYP2C19 | P33261 | 1/20 | 0.38 |
| ▸ | CASP3 | P42574 | 1/20 | 0.37 |
| ▸ | SENP8 | Q96LD8 | 1/20 | 0.37 |
| ▸ | SENP7 | Q9BQF6 | 1/20 | 0.37 |
| ▸ | SENP6 | Q9GZR1 | 1/20 | 0.37 |
| ▸ | L3MBTL1 | Q9Y468 | 1/20 | 0.37 |
| ▸ | POLB | P06746 | 1/20 | 0.36 |
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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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCHEMBL3323500 | 0.91 | ALDH1A1 (0.47) | HCRTR1MAOBALDH1A1SMN1; SMN2LMNA | |
| SCHEMBL3327676 | 0.81 | ALDH1A1 (0.46) | HCRTR1ALDH1A1SMN1; SMN2LMNAMAPT | |
| SCHEMBL980255 | 0.76 | ALDH1A1 (0.46) | HCRTR1MAOBALDH1A1SMN1; SMN2LMNA | |
| SCHEMBL982788 | 0.75 | MAOB (0.47) | HCRTR1MAOBALDH1A1SMN1; SMN2LMNA | |
| SCHEMBL3328131 | 0.75 | RBP4 (0.46) | HCRTR1MAOBALDH1A1SMN1; SMN2MAPT | |
| SCHEMBL3326388 | 0.73 | ERCC1 (0.48) | MAOBALDH1A1SMN1; SMN2LMNAMAPT | |
| SCHEMBL13299663 | 0.73 | ALDH1A1 (0.43) | HCRTR1MAOBALDH1A1SMN1; SMN2LMNA | |
| Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL3326836 | 0.72 | EGFR (0.57) | ALDH1A1MAPTHPGD | |
| SCHEMBL3328864 | 0.71 | ALDH1A1 (0.49) | HCRTR1MAOBALDH1A1SMN1; SMN2HPGD | |
| SCHEMBL3328170 | 0.70 | ALDH1A1 (0.60) | HCRTR1MAOBALDH1A1SMN1; SMN2MAPT |
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 4 patents. claimed = in the patent's claims; disclosed = body only.
| Patent | Title | Assignee | Published | Priority | Filing | Country | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EP-2148865-B1 | PYRAZOLE INHIBITORS OF WNT SIGNALING | GENENTECH INC (US) | 2017-05-17 | — | — | EP | disclosed |
| US-20100137394-A1 | PYRAZOLE INHIBITORS OF WNT SIGNALING | GRENENTECH, INC. (US) | 2010-06-03 | — | — | US | disclosed |
| EP-2148865-A1 | PYRAZOLE INHIBITORS OF WNT SIGNALING | Genentech, Inc. (US) | 2010-02-03 | — | — | EP | disclosed |
| WO-2008137408-A1 | PYRAZOLE INHIBITORS OF WNT SIGNALING | GENENTECH, INC. (US) | 2008-11-13 | — | — | 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-20100137394-A1 | PYRAZOLE INHIBITORS OF WNT SIGNALING | WNT1, WNT3A, CTNNB1 | HCRTR1 3245/4885MAOB 4014/4885ALDH1A1 1479/4885 |
“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.