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 14)
| gene | UniProt | supporting neighbours | confidence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▸ | OPRM1 known ✓ | P35372 | 8/20 | 0.54 |
| ▸ | MEN1 known ✓ | O00255 | 1/20 | 0.31 |
| ▸ | OGFRL1 | Q5TC84 | 8/20 | 0.54 |
| ▸ | SIRT1 | Q96EB6 | 2/20 | 0.33 |
| ▸ | ALDH1A1 | P00352 | 2/20 | 0.32 |
| ▸ | GAA | P10253 | 1/20 | 0.32 |
| ▸ | KDM4E | B2RXH2 | 1/20 | 0.31 |
| ▸ | LMNA | P02545 | 1/20 | 0.31 |
| ▸ | RB1 | P06400 | 1/20 | 0.31 |
| ▸ | SSTR3 | P32745 | 1/20 | 0.31 |
| ▸ | CDKN1A | P38936 | 1/20 | 0.31 |
| ▸ | KMT2A | Q03164 | 2/20 | 0.31 |
| ▸ | MAPT | P10636 | 1/20 | 0.31 |
| ▸ | SLC2A1 | P11166 | 1/20 | 0.30 |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCHEMBL2326582 | 0.89 | OPRM1 (0.66) | OPRM1OGFRL1SIRT1RB1SSTR3 | |
| Citric Acid SCHEMBL1304493 | 0.84 | OPRM1 (0.78) | OPRM1OGFRL1 | |
| SCHEMBL699857 | 0.82 | OPRM1 (0.58) | OPRM1OGFRL1SIRT1RB1 | |
| SCHEMBL699418 | 0.81 | OPRM1 (0.57) | OPRM1OGFRL1SIRT1RB1 | |
| SCHEMBL699217 | 0.81 | OPRM1 (0.56) | OPRM1OGFRL1SIRT1ALDH1A1KDM4E | |
| SCHEMBL700139 | 0.80 | OPRM1 (0.67) | OPRM1OGFRL1 | |
| SCHEMBL698642 | 0.79 | OPRM1 (0.63) | OPRM1OGFRL1SIRT1RB1SSTR3 | |
| Citric Acid SCHEMBL700111 | 0.79 | OPRM1 (0.49) | OPRM1OGFRL1 | |
| Citric Acid SCHEMBL1304186 | 0.76 | OPRM1 (0.64) | OPRM1OGFRL1 | |
| SCHEMBL698643 | 0.76 | OPRM1 (0.61) | OPRM1OGFRL1SIRT1RB1SSTR3 |
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-8124788-B2 | Spirocyclic cyclohexane compounds with analgesic activity | GRUENENTHAL GMBH (DE) | 2012-02-28 | — | — | US | claimed |
| EP-2010531-B1 | SPIROCYCLIC CYCLOHEXANE DERIVATIVES WITH ANALGESIC PROPERTIES | GRUENENTHAL GMBH (DE) | 2011-08-17 | — | — | EP | claimed |
| US-20090111842-A1 | SPIROCYCLIC CYCLOHEXANE COMPOUNDS WITH ANALGESIC ACTIVITY | GRUENENTHAL GMBH (DE) | 2009-04-30 | — | — | US | claimed |
| 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 9/4885MEN1 3981/4885OGFRL1 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.