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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▸ | TSHR | P16473 | 2/20 | 0.61 |
| ▸ | DAO | P14920 | 1/20 | 0.61 |
| ▸ | NAPRT | Q6XQN6 | 1/20 | 0.61 |
| ▸ | CES2 | O00748 | 2/20 | 0.52 |
| ▸ | CES1 | P23141 | 2/20 | 0.52 |
| ▸ | SRD5A2 | P31213 | 1/20 | 0.52 |
| ▸ | ALDH1A1 | P00352 | 4/20 | 0.50 |
| ▸ | KDM4E | B2RXH2 | 3/20 | 0.50 |
| ▸ | MAPT | P10636 | 3/20 | 0.50 |
| ▸ | CYP2C9 | P11712 | 2/20 | 0.50 |
| ▸ | CYP1A2 | P05177 | 1/20 | 0.50 |
| ▸ | CYP3A4 | P08684 | 1/20 | 0.50 |
| ▸ | CYP2D6 | P10635 | 1/20 | 0.50 |
| ▸ | G6PD | P11413 | 1/20 | 0.50 |
| ▸ | PKM | P14618 | 1/20 | 0.50 |
| ▸ | HPGD | P15428 | 1/20 | 0.50 |
| ▸ | ALOX15 | P16050 | 1/20 | 0.50 |
| ▸ | ALOX12 | P18054 | 1/20 | 0.50 |
| ▸ | MAPK1 | P28482 | 1/20 | 0.50 |
| ▸ | CYP2C19 | P33261 | 1/20 | 0.50 |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Methylhydroquinone SCHEMBL11341056 | 0.84 | DAO (0.52) | TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1 | |
| Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL7184955 | 0.83 | DAO (0.50) | TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1 | |
| Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL28096536 | 0.83 | NAPRT (0.61) | TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1 | |
| Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL28919560 | 0.81 | TSHR (0.74) | TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1 | |
| Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL3897338 | 0.81 | TSHR (0.74) | TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1 | |
| Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL7514531 | 0.81 | TSHR (0.93) | TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1 | |
| Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL6463794 | 0.80 | TSHR (0.64) | TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1 | |
| Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL1784678 | 0.80 | TSHR (0.64) | TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1 | |
| Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL28348484 | 0.79 | TSHR (0.70) | TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1 | |
| Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL2019528 | 0.79 | TSHR (0.78) | TSHRDAONAPRTCES2CES1 |
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 5 patents. claimed = in the patent's claims; disclosed = body only.
| Patent | Title | Assignee | Published | Priority | Filing | Country | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US-7038067-B2 | Process for synthesizing d-tocotrienols from 2-vinylchromane compound | YASOO HEALTH, INC. (US) | 2006-05-02 | — | — | US | disclosed |
| US-20050124688-A1 | Process for synthesizing d-tocotrienols from 2-vinylchromane compound | YASOO HEALTH, INC. | 2005-06-09 | — | — | US | disclosed |
| US-20050124687-A1 | Process for synthesizing d-tocotrienols | COULADOUROS ELIAS A (GR) | 2005-06-09 | — | — | US | disclosed |
| WO-2005035491-A2 | PROCESS FOR SYNTHESIZING d-TOCOTRIENOLS FROM 2- VINYLCHROMANE COMPOUND | YASOO HEALTH, INC. (US) | 2005-04-21 | — | — | WO | disclosed |
| WO-2005035490-A2 | PROCESS FOR SYNTHESIZING d-TOCOTRIENOLS | YASOO HEALTH, INC. (US) | 2005-04-21 | — | — | 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 (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-20050124688-A1 | Process for synthesizing d-tocotrienols from 2-vinylchromane compound | FDFT1, DHCR7, DDT | TSHR 2099/4885DAO 358/4885NAPRT 1850/4885 |
| US-20050124687-A1 | Process for synthesizing d-tocotrienols | UGT8, DDOST, GGPS1 | TSHR 1217/4885DAO 506/4885NAPRT 626/4885 |
“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.