Phenformin

Phenformin

SCHEMBL787929

NC(N)=NC(N)=NCCc1ccccc1.[Cl-].[H+]

nearest known ligand 0.93

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Known targets — ChEMBL curated mechanism

ACHEBDKRB2CHRM1CHRM2CHRM3CHRNA1CHRNB1CHRNDCHRNECHRNGGUCY1A1GUCY1A2GUCY1B1GUCY1B2NAMPTPTAFRSLC10A2SLC6A2SLC6A3TACR1dacAdacBdacCftsImrcAmrcBmrdA

The experimentally established mechanism targets of Phenformin. The predicted profile below is derived independently by chemical similarity — agreement is a validation signal, a miss is honest.

Predicted protein targets (top 20)

geneUniProtsupporting neighboursconfidence
SLC6A2 known ✓ P23975 1/20 0.93
SLC6A3 known ✓ Q01959 1/20 0.93
LMNA P02545 3/20 0.93
HIF1A Q16665 3/20 0.93
TSHR P16473 2/20 0.93
SLC22A2 O15244 1/20 0.93
SLC22A1 O15245 1/20 0.93
ADRA2A P08913 1/20 0.93
CYP2D6 P10635 1/20 0.93
ADRA2B P18089 1/20 0.93
ADRA1A P35348 1/20 0.93
HTR2B P41595 1/20 0.93
PDE3A Q14432 1/20 0.93
MAPT P10636 1/20 0.90
SMN1; SMN2 Q16637 1/20 0.90
TDP1 Q9NUW8 1/20 0.90
CA12 O43570 2/20 0.58
CA1 P00915 2/20 0.58
CA2 P00918 2/20 0.58
CA9 Q16790 2/20 0.58

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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.

Compoundsimilaritytop predictedshared targets
Phenformin SCHEMBL8425 0.96 LMNA (1.00) LMNAHIF1ATSHRSLC22A2SLC22A1
Phenformin SCHEMBL10325620 0.96 LMNA (1.00) LMNAHIF1ATSHRSLC22A2SLC22A1
Phenformin SCHEMBL136512 0.96 LMNA (1.00) LMNAHIF1ATSHRSLC22A2SLC22A1
SCHEMBL19770321 0.82 HIF1A (0.74) LMNAHIF1ATSHRSLC22A2SLC22A1
SCHEMBL28524333 0.82 HIF1A (0.74) LMNAHIF1ATSHRSLC22A2SLC22A1
[11C]Phenethylguanidine SCHEMBL837645 0.81 HTR3A (0.80) LMNAHIF1ATSHRSLC22A2SLC22A1
SCHEMBL23366564 0.79 TSHR (0.69) LMNAHIF1ATSHRSLC22A2SLC22A1
SCHEMBL1736065 0.77 TAAR1 (0.67) LMNAHIF1ATSHRSLC22A2SLC22A1
SCHEMBL1736064 0.77 TAAR1 (0.67) LMNAHIF1ATSHRSLC22A2SLC22A1
[11C]Phenethylguanidine SCHEMBL28305963 0.76 HTR3A (0.71) LMNAHIF1ATSHRSLC22A2SLC22A1

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 39 patents — showing the first 20. claimed = in the patent's claims; disclosed = body only.

PatentTitleAssigneePublishedPriorityFilingCountryStatus
US-12453713-B2 Liquid formulation to treat a corneal tissue VISION ENGINEERING ITALY SRL (IT) 2025-10-28 US disclosed
CN-114126650-B Liquid formulation, in particular for the treatment of corneal tissue 意大利视觉工程有限公司 2024-02-09 CN disclosed
US-20230131004-A1 LIQUID FORMULATION, IN PARTICULAR TO TREAT A CORNEAL TISSUE VISION ENGINEERING ITALY SRL (IT) 2023-04-27 US disclosed
US-20220107328-A1 METHODS OF TREATING LIVER DISEASES CAMP4 THERAPEUTICS CORPORATION 2022-04-07 US disclosed
CN-114126650-A Liquid preparation, in particular for the treatment of corneal tissue 意大利视觉工程有限公司 2022-03-01 CN disclosed
CN-114097815-A Application of medical compound with amidine skeleton in resisting plant pathogenic bacteria 兰州大学 2022-03-01 CN disclosed
WO-2021040441-A1 METHOD FOR PREPARING BIGUANIDE-BASED COMPOUND 주식회사 하임바이오 2021-03-04 WO disclosed
EP-3482753-B1 COMPOSITIONS AND THEIR USES FOR THE TREATMENT OF DIABETES AND RELATED CONDITIONS BY CONTROLLING BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVEL PHARNEXT (FR) 2021-01-27 EP disclosed
WO-2021009623-A1 LIQUID FORMULATION, IN PARTICULAR TO TREAT A CORNEAL TISSUE VISION ENGINEERING ITALY SRL (IT) 2021-01-21 WO disclosed
US-20200222409-A1 COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND USES FOR THE TREATMENT OF DIABETES AND RELATED CONDITIONS BY CONTROLLING BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVEL PHARNEXT (FR) 2020-07-16 US disclosed
US-20160206603-A1 COMPOSITION COMPRISING TORASEMIDE AND BACLOFEN FOR TREATING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS PHARNEXT (FR) 2016-07-21 US disclosed
EP-3038614-A1 COMPOSITION COMPRISING TORASEMIDE AND BACLOFEN FOR TREATING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS Pharnext (FR) 2016-07-06 EP disclosed
CN-105744932-A Folded biosensor 法耐斯特公司 2016-07-06 CN disclosed
US-20150231123-A1 COMPOSITIONS, METHODS AND USES FOR THE TREATMENT OF DIABETES AND RELATED CONDITIONS BY CONTROLLING BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVEL PHARNEXT (FR) 2015-08-20 US disclosed
US-20150140123-A1 Protein expression analyses for identifying genotoxic compounds MERCK PATENT GMBH (DE) 2015-05-21 US disclosed
WO-2015028659-A1 COMPOSITION COMPRISING TORASEMIDE AND BACLOFEN FOR TREATING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS PHARNEXT (FR) 2015-03-05 WO disclosed
US-20140038927-A1 COMPOSITIONS FOR TREATING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS PHARNEXT (FR) 2014-02-06 US disclosed
US-20130302815-A1 Screening Method ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS LEIDEN also acting under the name LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (NL) 2013-11-14 US disclosed
EP-2616484-A2 SCREENING METHOD Universiteit Leiden (NL) 2013-07-24 EP disclosed
WO-2012035120-A2 SCREENING METHOD UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN (NL) 2012-03-22 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.

PatentTitleText reads most aboutPredicted target · text-rank
US-20220107328-A1 METHODS OF TREATING LIVER DISEASES PNPLA2, LIPC, PNLIP SLC6A2 2002/4885SLC6A3 1786/4885LMNA 459/4885

“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.