Known targets — ChEMBL curated mechanism
The experimentally established mechanism targets of Oxalic 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▸ | NPC1 | O15118 | 1/20 | 0.42 |
| ▸ | CLK1 | P49759 | 1/20 | 0.42 |
| ▸ | RAB9A | P51151 | 1/20 | 0.42 |
| ▸ | GFER | P55789 | 1/20 | 0.42 |
| ▸ | AURKA | O14965 | 2/20 | 0.41 |
| ▸ | KDM4E | B2RXH2 | 1/20 | 0.39 |
| ▸ | ALDH1A1 | P00352 | 1/20 | 0.39 |
| ▸ | SMN1; SMN2 | Q16637 | 1/20 | 0.39 |
| ▸ | HTR3A | P46098 | 1/20 | 0.38 |
| ▸ | EPHX2 | P34913 | 1/20 | 0.38 |
| ▸ | HRH3 | Q9Y5N1 | 9/20 | 0.38 |
| ▸ | PIK3CA | P42336 | 1/20 | 0.38 |
| ▸ | MTOR | P42345 | 1/20 | 0.38 |
| ▸ | KCNH2 | Q12809 | 3/20 | 0.38 |
| ▸ | HRH4 | Q9H3N8 | 2/20 | 0.38 |
| ▸ | HRH1 | P35367 | 1/20 | 0.38 |
| ▸ | CCNE2 | O96020 | 1/20 | 0.37 |
| ▸ | CDK4 | P11802 | 1/20 | 0.37 |
| ▸ | CCND1 | P24385 | 1/20 | 0.37 |
| ▸ | CCNE1 | P24864 | 1/20 | 0.37 |
Click a target to see other patent compounds predicted against it — the reverse direction, in place.
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCHEMBL5638790 | 0.98 | NPC1 (0.44) | NPC1CLK1RAB9AGFERAURKA | |
| SCHEMBL5637914 | 0.97 | NPC1 (0.43) | NPC1CLK1RAB9AGFERAURKA | |
| Oxalic Acid SCHEMBL5637724 | 0.91 | HTR3A (0.50) | AURKAKDM4EALDH1A1SMN1; SMN2HTR3A | |
| SCHEMBL5637982 | 0.90 | MEN1 (0.49) | NPC1CLK1RAB9AGFERAURKA | |
| SCHEMBL5637399 | 0.89 | MEN1 (0.51) | AURKAHTR3AHRH3KCNH2 | |
| SCHEMBL5638832 | 0.89 | HTR3A (0.52) | AURKAHTR3AEPHX2HRH3KCNH2 | |
| Oxalic Acid SCHEMBL5637938 | 0.83 | KDM4E (0.56) | NPC1RAB9AKDM4EALDH1A1SMN1; SMN2 | |
| SCHEMBL5641907 | 0.82 | HRH3 (0.36) | NPC1CLK1RAB9AGFERKDM4E | |
| SCHEMBL5638739 | 0.81 | NPC1 (0.46) | NPC1CLK1RAB9AGFERAURKA | |
| Oxalic Acid SCHEMBL5638226 | 0.80 | MEN1 (0.48) | AURKAKDM4EALDH1A1SMN1; SMN2HTR3A |
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 2 patents. claimed = in the patent's claims; disclosed = body only.
| Patent | Title | Assignee | Published | Priority | Filing | Country | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US-7229987-B2 | Multicyclic compounds for use as melanin concentrating hormone antagonists in the treatment of obesity and diabetes | ELI LILLY AND COMPANY (US) | 2007-06-12 | — | — | US | disclosed |
| US-20050272718-A1 | Multicyclic compounds for use as melanin concentrating hormone antagonists in the treatment of obesity and diabetes | AMMENN ET AL, JOCHEN | 2005-12-08 | — | — | US | 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-20050272718-A1 | Multicyclic compounds for use as melanin concentrating hormone antagonists in the treatment of obesity and diabetes | MC1R, MC4R, MC5R | NPC1 457/4885CLK1 3849/4885RAB9A 1063/4885 |
“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.