Androgen receptor: structure, role in prostate cancer and drug discovery

MH Tan, J Li, HE Xu, K Melcher, E Yong - Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2015 - nature.com
Androgens and androgen receptors (AR) play a pivotal role in expression of the male
phenotype. Several diseases, such as androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) and prostate …

Therapeutic strategies to target the androgen receptor

W Xiang, S Wang - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
The androgen receptor (AR) plays a key role in the maintenance of muscle and bone and
the support of male sexual-related functions, as well as in the progression of prostate …

Oleic acid is an endogenous ligand of TLX/NR2E1 that triggers hippocampal neurogenesis

P Kandel, F Semerci, R Mishra… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Neural stem cells, the source of newborn neurons in the adult hippocampus, are intimately
involved in learning and memory, mood, and stress response. Despite considerable …

Best practices of computer-aided drug discovery: lessons learned from the development of a preclinical candidate for prostate cancer with a new mechanism of action

F Ban, K Dalal, H Li, E LeBlanc… - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Small-molecule drug design is a complex and iterative decision-making process relying on
pre-existing knowledge and driven by experimental data. Low-molecular-weight chemicals …

Targeting the binding function 3 (BF3) site of the human androgen receptor through virtual screening.

NA Lack, P Axerio-Cilies, P Tavassoli… - Journal of medicinal …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The androgen receptor (AR) is the best studied drug target for the treatment of prostate
cancer. While there are a number of drugs that target the AR, they all work through the same …

Discovery of small-molecule inhibitors selectively targeting the DNA-binding domain of the human androgen receptor

H Li, F Ban, K Dalal, E Leblanc, K Frewin… - Journal of medicinal …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The human androgen receptor (AR) is considered as a master regulator in the development
and progression of prostate cancer (PCa). As resistance to clinically used anti-AR drugs …

A magic drug target: Androgen receptor

D Li, W Zhou, J Pang, Q Tang, B Zhong… - Medicinal research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Androgen receptor (AR) is closely associated with a group of hormone‐related diseases
including the cancers of prostate, breast, ovary, pancreas, etc and anabolic deficiencies …

Discovery of new catalytic topoisomerase II inhibitors for anticancer therapeutics

VM Matias-Barrios, M Radaeva, Y Song… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Poison inhibitors of DNA topoisomerase II (TOP2) are clinically used drugs that cause
cancer cell death by inducing DNA damage, which mechanism of action is also associated …

Isomerization of bioactive acylhydrazones triggered by light or thiols

Z Zhang, GNT Le, Y Ge, X Tang, X Chen, L Ejim… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
The acylhydrazone unit is well represented in screening databases used to find ligands for
biological targets, and numerous bioactive acylhydrazones have been reported. However …

Computer-aided ligand discovery for estrogen receptor alpha

D Bafna, F Ban, PS Rennie, K Singh… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer (BCa) is one of the most predominantly diagnosed cancers in women.
Notably, 70% of BCa diagnoses are Estrogen Receptor α positive (ERα+) making it a critical …