Journal ArticleGynecologic Oncology · November 1, 2025
Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a potentially serious and sometimes fatal complication of targeted therapies, including antibody-drug conjugates and immunotherapies, in gynecologic oncology. Risk factors include pre-existing lung disease, advanced age a ...
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Journal ArticleAdvanced biology · October 2025
Targeting glutamine metabolism has emerged as a promising strategy in cancer therapy. To attain clinical utility, a number of challenges must be overcome, including in vivo anti-tumor activity, pharmacological toxicity, and clinical safety. Aside from glut ...
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Journal ArticleGynecologic Oncology · October 1, 2025
Objective: Since anti-tumor immunity is enhanced by vaccination of mice adjacent to human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16+) tumors, we examined whether HPV16 L2E7E6 fusion protein (TA-CIN) vaccination in the thigh of HPV16+ cervical cancer patients would be ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Cancer Inst · September 1, 2025
Endometrial cancer is now the leading cause of gynecologic cancer death in the United States. Recognizing the urgent need to improve outcomes for patients diagnosed with endometrial cancer, the National Cancer Institute Gynecologic Cancer Steering Committe ...
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Journal ArticleJ Gynecol Oncol · September 2025
OBJECTIVE: With the development of novel antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), folate receptor alpha (FOLR1) is a promising therapeutic target for the treatment of platinum-resistant tubo-ovarian carcinomas. The main aims of this study were to assess FOLR1 prot ...
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Journal ArticleGynecol Oncol · August 14, 2025
OBJECTIVE: KEYNOTE-775 defined lenvatinib/pembrolizumab as the new standard-of-care for patients with proficient mismatch repair (pMMR) recurrent EC. However, the regimen required dose reductions in 66.5 % of participants and the generalizability of these ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Compr Canc Netw · August 2025
The NCCN Guidelines for Uterine Neoplasms provide recommendations for diagnostic workup, clinical staging, and treatment options for patients with endometrial cancer and uterine sarcoma. The NCCN Cervical Uterine Panel meets at least annually to review com ...
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Journal ArticleJCO Oncol Pract · July 2025
Over the last decade, there has been a major shift in the up-front treatment of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) in the United States, with a substantial decline in primary cytoreduction surgery (PCS) and significant rise in neoadjuvant chemotherap ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Treat Rev · July 2025
BACKGROUND: The addition of induction chemotherapy (ICT) prior to concomitant chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) in the treatment of locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC) is controversial, as trials have yielded conflicting results. This study aims to evaluate the ...
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Journal ArticleObstetrical and Gynecological Survey · July 1, 2025
Diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cancer are challenging due to the lack of effective screening tools for advanced stages of disease. Advanced ovarian cancer, classified as the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics stage III or IV, is trad ...
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Journal ArticleGynecol Oncol Rep · June 2025
OBJECTIVE: This pilot window of opportunity study was conducted to assess feasibility, toxicity, and changes in immune parameters in response to one dose of the PD-1 inhibitor, pembrolizumab, in patients newly diagnosed with mullerian epithelial cancers. M ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Gynecol Cancer · May 2025
OBJECTIVE: Next-generation sequencing and tumor testing to direct therapy in advanced/recurrent endometrial cancer are frequently used, but the impact of this approach is unclear. We sought to confirm the proportion of patients with at least 1 actionable a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · March 2025
PURPOSE: To provide updated guidance regarding neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) and primary cytoreductive surgery (PCS) among patients with stage III-IV epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer (epithelial ovarian cancer [EOC]). METH ...
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Journal ArticleGynecol Oncol · March 2025
OBJECTIVE: PARP inhibitors may work synergistically to improve the efficacy of immunotherapy in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). We performed a parallel-arm study of tremelimumab, alone or with olaparib, in patients with recurrent EOC. METHOD ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Res · November 15, 2024
Targeting multiple signaling pathways has been proposed as a strategy to overcome resistance to single-pathway inhibition in cancer therapy. A previous study in epithelial ovarian cancers identified hyperactivity of spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) and EGFR, w ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Gynecol Cancer · November 4, 2024
OBJECTIVE: Increased glutamine metabolism by cancer cells via upregulation of the drug-targetable enzyme glutaminase may contribute to an immune-suppressive tumor microenvironment. Inhibiting glutamine metabolism can not only suppress tumor growth, but als ...
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Journal ArticleGynecologic Oncology Reports · June 1, 2024
Dedifferentiated endometrial carcinoma is a rare, highly aggressive subtype of endometrial cancer associated with poor survival outcomes. Current guidelines recommend treatment of advanced-stage disease with surgical staging or cytoreduction and platinum/t ...
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Journal ArticleGynecologic Oncology Reports · June 1, 2024
Introduction: Treatment for recurrent ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) is clinically challenging as response rates to traditional chemotherapy are low, and recurrence rates are high. Immunotherapy has shown promise for this ovarian cancer (OC) subtype, ...
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Journal ArticleJCO Precis Oncol · May 2024
PURPOSE: To report the results of OPAL (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03574779) cohort A, a single-arm substudy of niraparib plus dostarlimab and bevacizumab for the treatment of advanced, platinum-resistant ovarian cancer (PROC). METHODS: Participants ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Compr Canc Netw · March 2024
Vulvar cancer is annually diagnosed in an estimated 6,470 individuals and the vast majority are histologically squamous cell carcinomas. Vulvar cancer accounts for 5% to 8% of gynecologic malignancies. Known risk factors for vulvar cancer include increasin ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Gynecol Pathol · January 1, 2024
MEIS1::NCOA1/2 fusion sarcomas are a recently described novel entity arising in a variety of locations with a predilection for the genitourinary tract and gynecologic organs. Despite multiple locoregional recurrences, these tumors are thought to behave in ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Compr Canc Netw · December 2023
The NCCN Guidelines for Cervical Cancer provide recommendations for all aspects of management for cervical cancer, including the diagnostic workup, staging, pathology, and treatment. The guidelines also include details on histopathologic classification of ...
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Journal ArticleMed · November 10, 2023
Frontline treatment and resultant cure rates in patients with advanced ovarian cancer have changed little over the past several decades. Here, we outline a multidisciplinary approach aimed at gaining novel therapeutic insights by focusing on the poorly und ...
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Journal ArticleGynecol Oncol · November 2023
OBJECTIVE: This study assessed the efficacy, safety, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of the treatment regimen of dostarlimab, a programmed death-1 inhibitor, combined with niraparib, a poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor, in patients with BRC ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Gynecol Cancer · September 4, 2023
Compared with high-grade serous carcinoma, low-grade serous carcinoma of the ovary or peritoneum is a less frequent epithelial ovarian cancer type that is poorly sensitive to chemotherapy and affects younger women, many of whom endure years of ineffective ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Res · August 15, 2023
UNLABELLED: ARID1A is a subunit of SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes and is mutated in many types of human cancers, especially those derived from endometrial epithelium, including ovarian and uterine clear cell carcinoma (CCC) and endometrioid carcino ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · August 1, 2023
PURPOSE: Addition of ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related kinase inhibitors (ATRi) to PARP inhibitors (PARPi) overcomes PARPi resistance in high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) cell and mouse models. We present the results of an investigator-initiate ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Res Commun · February 2023
PURPOSE: Mistletoe extract (ME) is widely used for patients with cancer to support therapy and to improve quality of life (QoL). However, its use is controversial due to suboptimal trials and a lack of data supporting its intravenous administration. MATERI ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in Oncology · January 1, 2023
Background: Endometrial carcinoma is the most common gynecologic cancer, with increasing incidence and mortality. Combination endocrine therapy comprised of tamoxifen and progestational agents has demonstrated promising results in treating recurrent diseas ...
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Journal ArticleBrain Behav Immun Health · December 2022
Mounting evidence suggests that chronic stress and subsequent distress can promote ovarian cancer progression. These altered psychological states have been linked to sustained release of stress hormones, activation of the β-adrenergic receptors in ovarian ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunother Cancer · March 2022
BACKGROUND: Combining immunotherapy and antiangiogenic agents is a promising treatment strategy in endometrial cancer. To date, no biomarkers for response have been identified and data on post-immunotherapy progression are lacking. We explored the combinat ...
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Journal ArticleLancet · February 5, 2022
BACKGROUND: Low-grade serous carcinoma of the ovary or peritoneum is characterised by MAPK pathway aberrations and its reduced sensitivity to chemotherapy relative to high-grade serous carcinoma. We compared the MEK inhibitor trametinib to physician's choi ...
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Journal ArticleIscience · November 19, 2021
PBX1 is a transcription factor involved in diverse cellular functions including organ development, stem cell renewal, and tumorigenesis. PBX1 is localized at chr1q23.3, a frequently amplified chromosomal region, and it is overexpressed in many human malign ...
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Journal ArticleLab Invest · November 2021
Endometrium-related malignancies including uterine endometrioid carcinoma, ovarian clear cell carcinoma and ovarian endometrioid carcinoma are major types of gynecologic cancer, claiming more than 13,000 women's lives annually in the United States. In vitr ...
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Journal ArticleGynecol Oncol · November 2021
OBJECTIVE: The randomized phase 3 CORAIL trial evaluated whether lurbinectedin improved progression-free survival (PFS) compared to pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) or topotecan in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. METHODS: Patients wer ...
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Journal ArticleGynecol Oncol · November 2021
OBJECTIVE: Platinum-resistant, high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) has limited treatment options. Preclinical data suggest that poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) and ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related kinase inhibitors (ATRi) are syne ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Immunol Immunother · April 2021
INTRODUCTION: The human papillomavirus (HPV) encoded oncoproteins E6 and E7 are constitutively expressed in HPV-associated cancers, making them logical therapeutic targets. Intramuscular immunization of patients with HPV16 L2E7E6 fusion protein vaccine (TA ...
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Journal ArticlemBio · January 19, 2021
Immunotherapy for cervical cancer should target high-risk human papillomavirus types 16 and 18, which cause 50% and 20% of cervical cancers, respectively. Here, we describe the construction and characterization of the pBI-11 DNA vaccine via the addition of ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Res · October 15, 2020
Amplification and overexpression of the MYC oncogene in tumor cells, including ovarian cancer cells, correlates with poor responses to chemotherapy. As MYC is not directly targetable, we have analyzed molecular pathways downstream of MYC to identify potent ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Gynecol Pathol · January 2020
Recent advances in molecular studies, especially genome-wide analyses, have revealed the landscape of genomic alterations present in endometrial carcinomas, and have provided valuable insight into the pathogenesis of this disease. The current challenges ar ...
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Journal ArticleClin Cancer Res · September 15, 2019
PURPOSE: Somatic inactivating mutations in ARID1A, a component of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex, are detected in various types of human malignancies. Loss of ARID1A compromises DNA damage repair. The induced DNA damage burden may increase relian ...
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Journal ArticleEBioMedicine · September 2019
BACKGROUND: Spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK) is frequently upregulated in recurrent ovarian carcinomas, for which effective therapy is urgently needed. SYK phosphorylates several substrates, but their translational implications remain unclear. Here, we show th ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · August 15, 2019
BACKGROUND: Epigenetic abnormalities are manifold in all solid tumors and include changes in chromatin configuration and DNA methylation. The authors designed a phase 1 study to evaluate the oral DNA methyltransferase inhibitor CC-486 combined with the his ...
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Journal ArticleGynecol Oncol · July 2019
OBJECTIVE: Endocrine therapy is often considered as a treatment for hormone-responsive gynecologic malignancies. In breast cancer, activating mutations in the estrogen receptor (mutESR1) contribute to therapeutic resistance to endocrine therapy, especially ...
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Journal ArticleMod Pathol · April 2019
Mismatch repair-deficient endometrial cancers have a high somatic mutation burden, suggesting that patients with these tumors may benefit from immunotherapy. Elucidating the immune suppressive mechanisms of mismatch repair-deficient endometrial cancers is ...
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Journal ArticleOncogene · July 2018
Cell motility and invasiveness are prerequisites for dissemination, and largely account for cancer mortality. We have identified an actionable kinase, spleen tyrosine kinase (SYK), which is keenly tightly associated with tumor progression in ovarian cancer ...
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Journal ArticleJCO Clin Cancer Inform · November 2017
PURPOSE: Prior studies have demonstrated the importance of treatment duration (TD) in radiation therapy (RT) for cervical cancer, with an 8-week goal based primarily on RT alone. This study uses a contemporary cohort to estimate the time point by which com ...
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Journal ArticleGynecol Oncol · October 2017
OBJECTIVES: Women with advanced-stage, low-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (LGSC) have low chemotherapy response rates and poor overall survival. Most LGSC tumors overexpress hormone receptors, which represent a potential treatment target. Our study objecti ...
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Journal ArticleGynecol Oncol · September 2017
BACKGROUND: Brivanib is an oral, tyrosine kinase inhibitor against vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR). We studied its efficacy and tolerability in persistent or recurrent cervical cancer patients. METHODS ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Gynecol Cancer · May 2017
OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to assess interaction of lymph node dissection (LND), adjuvant chemotherapy (CT), and radiotherapy (RT) in stage I uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC) and uterine clear cell carcinoma (UCC). METHODS/MATERIALS: The ...
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Journal ArticleGynecol Oncol Res Pract · 2016
The introduction of immune checkpoint inhibitors has revolutionized treatment of multiple cancers and has bolstered interest in this treatment approach. So far, emerging clinical data show limited clinical efficacy of these agents in ovarian cancer with ob ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Cell · July 13, 2015
Resistance to chemotherapy represents a major obstacle for long-term remission, and effective strategies to overcome drug resistance would have significant clinical impact. We report that recurrent ovarian carcinomas after paclitaxel/carboplatin treatment ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · December 1, 2014
BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to elucidate relative preferences of women with ovarian cancer for symptoms, treatment-related side effects, and progression-free survival (PFS) relevant to choosing a treatment regimen. METHODS: Women with advan ...
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Journal ArticleGynecol Oncol · March 2014
OBJECTIVE: This open-label, multi-institutional phase II trial evaluated activity and safety of rilotumumab (AMG 102), a monoclonal antibody that targets HGF (hepatocyte growth factor), the ligand for the MET receptor, in women with recurrent or persistent ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Virol · July 2011
The mechanism of elite control of HIV-1 replication is not fully understood. While immunosuppression due to rituximab based chemotherapy has been associated with increased replication of HBV, CMV, and HIV-1, control of replication-competent HIV-1 was maint ...
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Journal ArticleBreast Cancer Res · March 14, 2011
Aromatase inhibitors are widely used as adjuvant therapy in postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. While the agents are associated with slightly improved survival outcomes when compared to tamoxifen alone, bone and musculoskelet ...
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Journal ArticleMol Endocrinol · August 2009
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The transcriptional coactivator peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator (PGC)-1alpha is involved in the coordinate induction of changes in gene expression in the liver that enable a homeostatic response to alterations in metabolic stat ...
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Journal ArticleJ Steroid Biochem Mol Biol · March 2009
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Estrogen-related receptor alpha (ERRalpha) is an orphan member of the nuclear receptor family of transcription factors. In addition to its function as a metabolic regulator, ERRalpha has been implicated in the growth and progression of several malignancies ...
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Journal ArticleMol Endocrinol · January 2007
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Estrogen receptor-related receptor-alpha (ERRalpha) is an orphan nuclear receptor that does not appear to require a classical small molecule ligand to facilitate its interaction with coactivators and/or hormone response elements within target genes. Instea ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · December 29, 2006
The pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) catalyzes the conversion of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA in mitochondria and is a key regulatory enzyme in the oxidation of glucose to acetyl-CoA. Phosphorylation of PDC by the pyruvate dehydrogenase kinases (PDK2 and PDK ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell · December 8, 2006
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In the absence of specific high-affinity agonists and antagonists, it has been difficult to define the target genes and biological responses attributable to many of the orphan nuclear receptors (ONRs). Indeed, it appears that many members of this receptor ...
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Journal ArticleBioorg Med Chem Lett · February 15, 2006
The design and synthesis of 4-hydroxytamoxifen (4-OHT) derivatives are described. The binding affinities of these compounds toward the orphan estrogen-related receptor gamma and the classical estrogen receptor alpha demonstrate that analogs bearing hydroxy ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Res · December 15, 2005
Aromatase inhibitors target the production of estrogen in breast adipose tissue, but in doing so, also decrease estrogen formation in bone and other sites, giving rise to deleterious side effects, such as bone loss and arthralgia. Thus, it would be clinica ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell · May 27, 2005
The molecular chaperone heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) and its accessory cochaperones function by facilitating the structural maturation and complex assembly of client proteins, including steroid hormone receptors and selected kinases. By promoting the acti ...
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Journal ArticleJ Med Chem · May 5, 2005
The first small molecule agonists of the estrogen-related receptors have been identified. GSK4716 (3) and GSK9089 (4) show binding to ERRgamma with remarkable selectivity over the classical estrogen receptors. Notably, in cell-based reporter assays, 3 mimi ...
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