ArticleNature chemical biology2021
Chemical systems biology reveals mechanisms of glucocorticoid receptor signaling.
Article in Nature chemical biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Selective Glucocorticoid Receptor Modulators of Immune Checkpoint Function.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Bile acids target an exposed cavity in the glucocorticoid receptor modulating receptor self-assembly, chromatin binding and transcriptional activity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Physiologic and structural characterization of desisobutyryl-ciclesonide, a selective glucocorticoid receptor modulator in newborn rats.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Merging Natural Product Structures with Pharmaceutical Leads: Unnatural Enantiomers of Estranes as Glucocorticoid Receptor Modulators That Suppress TNF-α and IL-6 Release.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2024Article
- Asymmetric allostery in estrogen receptor-α homodimers drives responses to the ensemble of estrogens in the hormonal milieu.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Ancient and modern mechanisms compete in progesterone receptor activation.RSC chemical biology · 2024Article
- Illuminating ligand-induced dynamics in nuclear receptors through MD simulations.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Gene regulatory mechanisms · 2024Review
- Modulating glucocorticoid receptor actions in physiology and pathology: Insights from coregulators.Pharmacology & therapeutics · 2023Review
- A structural mechanism of nuclear receptor biased agonism.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Cooperativity as quantification and optimization paradigm for nuclear receptor modulators.Chemical science · 2022Article
- Structural insights into glucocorticoid receptor function.Biochemical Society transactions · 2021Review
- COVID-19 and the pituitary.Pituitary · 2021Review
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Abstract
Glucocorticoids display remarkable anti-inflammatory activity, but their use is limited by on-target adverse effects including insulin resistance and skeletal muscle atrophy. We used a chemical systems biology approach, ligand class analysis, to examine ligands designed to modulate glucocorticoid receptor activity through distinct structural mechanisms. These ligands displayed diverse activity profiles, providing the variance required to identify target genes and coregulator interactions that were highly predictive of their effects on myocyte glucose disposal and protein balance. Their anti-inflammatory effects were linked to glucose disposal but not muscle atrophy. This approach also predicted selective modulation in vivo, identifying compounds that were muscle-sparing or anabolic for protein balance and mitochondrial potential. Ligand class analysis defined the mechanistic links between the ligand-receptor interface and ligand-driven physiological outcomes, a general approach that can be applied to any ligand-regulated allosteric signaling system.
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