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Articlenpj drug discovery2025

SARM1 base-exchange inhibitors induce SARM1 activation and neurodegeneration at low doses.

Anisha Mani, Mateusz Mendel, Paul Westwood, Claudia Bonardi, Wiebke Saal, Andreas Topp, Matthew Bilyard, Alessandro Brigo, Matthias Beat Wittwer, Jörg Benz and 4 more

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Article in npj drug discovery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Caspase-3 cleaves and activates the NADase SARM1 to promote apoptosis, linking two cell death mechanisms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Anisha Mani *Neuroscience and Rare Diseases, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
Mateusz Mendel *Therapeutic Modalities, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
Paul Westwood *Therapeutic Modalities, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
Claudia BonardiNeuroscience and Rare Diseases, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
Wiebke SaalTherapeutic Modalities, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
Andreas ToppTherapeutic Modalities, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
Matthew BilyardTherapeutic Modalities, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
Alessandro BrigoPharmaceutical Sciences, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
Matthias Beat WittwerPharmaceutical Sciences, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
Jörg BenzTherapeutic Modalities, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
Bernd KuhnTherapeutic Modalities, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
Achi HaiderPharmaceutical Sciences, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland.
Maude GiroudTherapeutic Modalities, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland. Maude.Giroud@roche.com.
James KeaneyNeuroscience and Rare Diseases, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland. James.Keaney@roche.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

SARM1 has emerged as a promising therapeutic target in neurology due to its central role in axonal degeneration and its amenability to different modes of small molecule inhibition. One chemical approach to modulate SARM1 involves orthosteric inhibition via a SARM1-mediated base-exchange reaction between a small molecule and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD

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PMID42380289
PMCPMC13267061

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