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 8)
| gene | UniProt | supporting neighbours | confidence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▸ | OPRM1 known ✓ | P35372 | 17/20 | 0.51 |
| ▸ | ESR1 known ✓ | P03372 | 1/20 | 0.31 |
| ▸ | OGFRL1 | Q5TC84 | 14/20 | 0.51 |
| ▸ | OPRL1 | P41146 | 6/20 | 0.44 |
| ▸ | OPRD1 | P41143 | 3/20 | 0.44 |
| ▸ | OPRK1 | P41145 | 3/20 | 0.44 |
| ▸ | RB1 | P06400 | 1/20 | 0.33 |
| ▸ | S1PR1 | P21453 | 1/20 | 0.31 |
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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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citric Acid SCHEMBL700111 | 0.93 | OPRM1 (0.49) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| SCHEMBL699732 | 0.89 | OPRM1 (0.62) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| SCHEMBL700102 | 0.82 | OPRM1 (0.58) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| SCHEMBL2326540 | 0.81 | OPRM1 (0.61) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| SCHEMBL699715 | 0.80 | OPRM1 (0.65) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| SCHEMBL700118 | 0.80 | OPRM1 (0.63) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| Cebranopadol SCHEMBL29597164 | 0.76 | OPRM1 (0.77) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| SCHEMBL700109 | 0.75 | OPRM1 (0.45) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1RB1ESR1 | |
| SCHEMBL700162 | 0.75 | OPRM1 (0.59) | OPRM1OGFRL1OPRL1OPRD1OPRK1 | |
| SCHEMBL699820 | 0.75 | OPRM1 (0.54) | 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 2 patents. claimed = in the patent's claims; disclosed = body only.
| Patent | Title | Assignee | Published | Priority | Filing | Country | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US-8124788-B2 | Spirocyclic cyclohexane compounds with analgesic activity | GRUENENTHAL GMBH (DE) | 2012-02-28 | — | — | US | disclosed |
| US-20090111842-A1 | SPIROCYCLIC CYCLOHEXANE COMPOUNDS WITH ANALGESIC ACTIVITY | GRUENENTHAL GMBH (DE) | 2009-04-30 | — | — | 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-20090111842-A1 | SPIROCYCLIC CYCLOHEXANE COMPOUNDS WITH ANALGESIC ACTIVITY | OPRK1, OPRL1, OPRD1 | OPRM1 9/4885ESR1 2440/4885OGFRL1 163/4885 |
“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.