Discovery of novel RARα agonists using pharmacophore-based virtual screening, molecular docking, and molecular dynamics simulation studies

A Ghorayshian, M Danesh, T Mostashari-Rad… - Plos One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Nuclear retinoic acid receptors (RARs) are ligand-dependent transcription factors involved
in various biological processes, such as embryogenesis, cell proliferation, differentiation …

Ligand‐based pharmacophore modeling and docking studies on vitamin D receptor inhibitors

DK Yadav, S Kumar, MK Teli… - Journal of cellular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, pharmacophore modeling and molecular docking approaches have been
extensively used to characterize the structural requirements and explore the conformational …

Relationship between structure and conformational change of the vitamin D receptor ligand binding domain in 1α, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 signaling

LY Wan, YQ Zhang, MD Chen, YQ Du, CB Liu, JF Wu - Molecules, 2015 - mdpi.com
Vitamin D Receptor (VDR) belongs to the nuclear receptor (NR) superfamily. Whereas the
structure of the ligand binding domain (LBD) of VDR has been determined in great detail …

Inhibitors for the Vitamin D receptor–coregulator interaction

KA Teske, O Yu, LA Arnold - Vitamins & Hormones, 2016 - Elsevier
The vitamin D receptor (VDR) belongs to the superfamily of nuclear receptors and is
activated by the endogenous ligand 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D 3. The genomic effects …

Vitamin D receptor in breast cancer tissues and its relation to estrogen receptor Alpha (ER-α) gene expression and serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in Egyptian …

MA Hemida, NA AbdElmoneim, TI Hewala… - Clinical Breast …, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction This study aimed to explore the role of vitamin D receptor (VDR) in breast
cancer tissues and its relation to serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25 (OH) D] levels and estrogen …

Anticancer activity of VDR-coregulator inhibitor PS121912

PS Sidhu, K Teske, B Feleke, NY Yuan… - Cancer chemotherapy …, 2014 - Springer
Purpose PS121912 has been developed as selective vitamin D receptor (VDR)-coregulator
inhibitor starting from a high throughput screening campaign to identify new agents that …

A novel chemo-phenotypic method identifies mixtures of salpn, vitamin D3, and pesticides involved in the development of colorectal and pancreatic cancer

NT Issa, H Wathieu, E Glasgow, I Peran… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Environmental chemical (EC) exposures and our interactions with them has significantly
increased in the recent decades. Toxicity associated biological characterization of these …

Triterpenes from Poria cocos are revealed as potential retinoid X receptor selective agonists based on cell and in silico evidence

H Xu, Y Wang, J Zhao, PW Jurutka… - Chemical Biology & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Poria cocos is an edible and medicinal fungus that is widely used in Traditional Chinese
Medicines as well as in modern applications. Retinoid X receptor (RXR) occupies a central …

Discriminating agonist and antagonist ligands of the nuclear receptors using 3D-pharmacophores

N Lagarde, S Delahaye, JF Zagury… - Journal of cheminformatics, 2016 - Springer
Nuclear receptors (NRs) constitute an important class of therapeutic targets. We evaluated
the performance of 3D structure-based and ligand-based pharmacophore models in …

Novel VDR antagonists based on the GW0742 scaffold

KA Teske, JW Bogart, LA Arnold - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 2018 - Elsevier
The vitamin D receptor is a nuclear hormone receptor that regulates cell proliferation, cell
differentiation and calcium homeostasis. The receptor is endogenously activated by 1, 25 …