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Characterization of PROTAC specificity and endogenous protein interactomes using ProtacID

Shrestha S., Maitland M. E. R., Jing L., Duan S., Nie D. Y., St-Germain J., Barsyte-Lovejoy D., Arrowsmith C. H., Raught B.

bioRxiv 2025, 14.648778.

BRD7/BRD9 PROTAC SMARCA2 PROTAC
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Oxidation of low-density lipoprotein by hemoglobin causes pulmonary microvascular endothelial barrier dysfunction through lectin-like oxidized LDL receptor 1

Meegan J. E., Riedmann K. J., Gonski S., Douglas J. S., Bogart A. M., Ware L. B., Bastarache J. A.

Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2025, 328(5):L748-L755.

LOX-1 inhibitor
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PubMed
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The lung microvasculature promotes alveolar type 2 cell differentiation via secreted SPARCL1

Panza P., Kim H-T., Lautenschläger T., Piesker J., Günther S., Alayoubi Y., Cleaver O., Looso M., Stainier D. Y. R.

Stem Cell Reports. 2025, 20(4):102451.

IKKβ inhibitor
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Spatio-temporal control of mitosis using light via a Plk1 inhibitor caged for activity and cellular permeability

von Glasenapp V., Almeida A. C., Chang D., Gasic I., Winssinger N., Gotta M.

Nat Commun. 2025, 16(1):1599.

PLK1 inhibitor
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PubMed
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Glucocorticoid receptor suppresses GATA6-mediated RNA polymerase II pause release to modulate classical subtype identity in pancreatic cancer

Ekstrom T. L., Rosok R. M., Abdelrahman A. M., Parassiadis C., Manjunath M., Dittrich M. Y., Wang X., Kutschat A. P., Kanakan A., Rajput A., Schacherer N., Lukic T., Carlson D. M., Thiel J., Kopp W., Stroebel P., Ellenrieder V., Gaedcke J., Dong M., Najafova Z., Truty M. J., Hessmann E., Johnsen S. A. 

Gut 2025, gutjnl-2024-334374. Online ahead of print.

Glucocorticoid Receptor (GR) Agonist
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PubMed
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Identification of 5-amino-1,3,4-thiadiazole appended isatins as bioactive small molecules with polypharmacological activities

Azam U., Humayun W. A., Avathan Veettil A. K., Liu Y., Hastürk O., Jiang M., Sievers S., Wu P., Naseer M. M.

RSC Med. Chem. 2025.

CCR10 antagonist
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