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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Computer-Aided Discovery of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Transcriptional Activity of TLX (NR2E1) Nuclear Receptor.

Evgenia Dueva, Kriti Singh, Anastasia Kalyta, Eric LeBlanc, Paul S Rennie, Artem Cherkasov

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Evgenia DuevaVancouver Prostate Centre, University of British Columbia, 2660 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3Z6, Canada. edueva@prostatecentre.com.ORCID 0000-0001-8399-5944
Kriti SinghVancouver Prostate Centre, University of British Columbia, 2660 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3Z6, Canada. ksingh@prostatecentre.com.
Anastasia KalytaVancouver Prostate Centre, University of British Columbia, 2660 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3Z6, Canada. akalyta@prostatecentre.com.
Eric LeBlancVancouver Prostate Centre, University of British Columbia, 2660 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3Z6, Canada. eleblanc@prostatecentre.com.
Paul S RennieVancouver Prostate Centre, University of British Columbia, 2660 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3Z6, Canada. prennie@prostatecentre.com.
Artem CherkasovVancouver Prostate Centre, University of British Columbia, 2660 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3Z6, Canada. acherkasov@prostatecentre.com.
University of British Columbia · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Orphan nuclear receptor TLX (NR2E1) plays a critical role in the regulation of neural stem cells (NSC) as well as in the development of NSC-derived brain tumors. In the last years, new data have emerged implicating TLX in prostate and breast cancer. Therefore, inhibitors of TLX transcriptional activity may have a significant impact on the treatment of several critical malignancies. However, the TLX protein possesses a non-canonical ligand-binding domain (LBD), which lacks a ligand-binding pocket (conventionally targeted in case of nuclear receptors) that complicates the development of small molecule inhibitors of TLX. Herein, we utilized a rational structure-based design approach to identify small molecules targeting the Atro-box binding site of human TLX LBD. As a result of virtual screening of ~7 million molecular structures, 97 compounds were identified and evaluated in the TLX-responsive luciferase reporter assay. Among those, three chemicals demonstrated 40⁻50% inhibition of luciferase-detected transcriptional activity of the TLX orphan nuclear receptor at a dose of 35 µM. The identified compounds represent the first class of small molecule inhibitors of TLX transcriptional activity identified via methods of computer-aided drug discovery.

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Computer-Aided DesignDrug DesignModels, MolecularBinding SitesGene Expression RegulationGenes, ReporterHumansMolecular ConformationMolecular StructureOrphan Nuclear ReceptorsProtein BindingQuantitative Structure-Activity RelationshipReceptors, Cytoplasmic and NuclearTranscriptional ActivationNR2E1 protein, humanOrphan Nuclear ReceptorsReceptors, Cytoplasmic and NuclearNR2E1nuclear receptorprostate cancerstructure-based drug designTLXtranscriptional factor

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PMID30441799
PMCPMC6278398
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