Nelson E Bruno, Jerome C Nwachukwu, Sathish Srinivasan, Charles C Nettles, Tina Izard, Zhuang Jin, Jason Nowak, Michael D Cameron, Siddaraju V Boregowda, Donald G Phinney, Olivier Elemento, Xu Liu, Eric A Ortlund, René Houtman, Diana A Stavreva, Gordon L Hager, Theodore M Kamenecka, Douglas J Kojetin, Kendall W Nettles
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...
January 28, 2021: Nature Chemical Biology