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Nuclear Receptors

The Art and Science of Modulator Design and Discovery

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  • Covers how produced modulators are evaluated experimentally and eventually in relevant disease states, before reaching the phase of developing more efficient and/or less toxic therapies

  • Explains how scientists approach the task of designing modulators before the experimental phase

  • Presents a unique perspective through deciphering the thought process scientists go through in various phases of their work

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Multifaceted Effects of Ligand on Nuclear Receptor Mobility

    • Lizabeth A. Allison, Vincent R. Roggero
    Pages 37-66
  3. Chemical Considerations in Discovery of Receptor Modulators

    • Anush Abelian, Adeboye Adejare
    Pages 67-77
  4. Structure-Based Design of Estrogen-Related Receptors Modulators

    • Shaimaa S. Goher, Bahaa Elgendy
    Pages 79-109
  5. Strategies for the Design of Vitamin D Receptor Ligands

    • Tania R. Mutchie, Daniel A. Webb, Elliot S. Di Milo, Leggy A. Arnold
    Pages 199-217
  6. Design of Novel PPAR Agonist for Neurodegenerative Disease

    • Ian Steinke, Rajesh Amin
    Pages 249-270
  7. Computational Applications on Food Contact Chemicals as Nuclear Receptor Binders

    • Francesca Cavaliere, Giulia Spaggiari, Pietro Cozzini
    Pages 285-313
  8. Nuclear Hormone Receptors and Host-Virus Interactions

    • Nadine Ahmed, Noreen Ahmed, Roxana Filip, John Paul Pezacki
    Pages 315-348
  9. Androgen Receptors in the Pathology of Disease

    • Jacky K. Leung, Amy H. Tien, Marianne D. Sadar
    Pages 411-461
  10. Bilirubin: A Ligand of the PPARα Nuclear Receptor

    • Stephen Hong, Darren Gordon, David E. Stec, Terry D. Hinds Jr
    Pages 463-482
  11. Nuclear Receptor Ligands in Flavivirus Infection Control

    • Salma El Adl, Alaa Badawi
    Pages 483-502
  12. Use of Nanotechnology to Improve 15d-PGJ2 Immunomodulatory Activities

    • Marcelo H. Napimoga, Henrique B. Abdalla, Juliana T. Clemente-Napimoga
    Pages 503-518

About this book

Nuclear receptors are ligand activated transcription factors that control numerous biological functions. Consequently, altering activity of these receptors is proposed, and indeed documented, to affect many physiological and pathological conditions in experimental animals and humans. Thus, nuclear receptors have become a major target in the effort to treat numerous diseases.

This book will shed light on and emphasize intricate processes involved in designing as well as discovering physiological and pharmacological modulators of these important proteins. World-renowned scientists will share with the reader their professional expertise and extensive experience acquired through decades working with nuclear receptors. Chapters address the various means and consequences of modulating nuclear receptor activity will be presented and discussed. These modulators cover a wide span of moieties ranging from synthetic chemicals to natural products. In addition, the classification of these chemicals ranges from pan agonists to selective agonists and inverse agonists to antagonists. They also include proteolytic means to obliterate the receptor in the event that modulating its activity through canonical pharmacological agents becomes less effective and/or less desirable due to anticipated or experienced toxicities. Modulation of receptor activity may also take place in the absence of a ligand or through manipulating the structure of the receptor itself by controlling posttranslational events.


Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Pharmacy, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, USA

    Mostafa Z. Badr

About the editor

Dr. Mostafa Z. Badr is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA. Dr. Badr obtained his Bachelor degree in Pharmacy and a Master’s degree in Organic Chemistry from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt. Dr. Badr subsequently obtained a Ph.D. Degree in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of Louisville, after which he received postdoctoral training in Toxicology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. In 1987 Dr. Badr accepted the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Pharmacy, where he retired as Professor in 2015.

 

Dr. Badr has authored and co-authored over 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and has published three previous books with Springer Nature. Dr. Badr founded the journal of PPAR Research and served as its Editor-in-Chief from 2005-2011, and the journal of Nuclear Receptor Research and served as its Editor-in-Chief from 2013 until 2019.

 

Mostafa Badr, Ph.D.

Kansas City, MO, USA

November 2020.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Nuclear Receptors

  • Book Subtitle: The Art and Science of Modulator Design and Discovery

  • Editors: Mostafa Z. Badr

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78315-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78314-3Published: 28 September 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78438-6Published: 29 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78315-0Published: 28 September 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 679

  • Number of Illustrations: 82 b/w illustrations, 127 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cancer Research, Medical Biochemistry

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