Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics

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Bagger, S. M., Schihada, H., Walser, A. L. S., Drzazga, A. K., Grätz, L., Palmisano, T., Kuhn, C. K., Mavri, M., Mølleskov-Jensen, A.-S., Tall, G. G., Schöneberg, T., Mathiasen, S. J., Javitch, J. A., Schulte, G., Spiess, K., & Rosenkilde, M. M. (2025). Complex G-protein signaling of the adhesion GPCR, ADGRA3. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 108441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2025.108441
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García Barberá, F., Picech, F., Cecenarro, L., Mezger, G. F., Faure, E., Zlocowski, N., Calafat, P., De Battista, J. C., Mukdsi, J. H., Sosa, L. del V., & Petiti, J. P. (2025). SHP2 inhibition reduces somatotroph tumor growth in a pre-clinical model. Neuro-Oncology. https://doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/noaf057
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Chang, W., Tegang, K., Samuels, B. A., Saxe, M., Wichmann, J., David, D. J., David, I. M., Augustin, A., Fischer, H., Golling, S., Lamerz, J., Roth, D., Graf, M., Zoffmann, S., Santarelli, L., Jagasia, R., & Hen, R. (2025). Pharmacological Enhancement of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis Improves Behavioral Pattern Separation in Young and Aged Male Mice. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 5(2), 100419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2024.100419
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Rubinelli, L., Manzo, O. L., Sungho, J., Del Gaudio, I., Bareja, R., Marino, A., Palikhe, S., Di Mauro, V., Bucci, M., Falcone, D. J., Elemento, O., Ersoy, B., Diano, S., Sasset, L., & Di Lorenzo, A. (2025). Suppression of endothelial ceramide de novo biosynthesis by Nogo-B contributes to cardiometabolic diseases. Nature Communications, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56869-9
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Dutta, A., Rodriguez-Calero, A., Ronaldson-Bouchard, K., Offermann, A., Rahman, D., Vhatkar, T. B., Hasson, D., Alshalalfa, M., Davicioni, E., Karnes, R. J., Rubin, M. A., Vunjak-Novakovic, G., Abate-Shen, C., & Arriaga, J. M. (2025). ATAD2 Drives Prostate Cancer Progression to Metastasis. Molecular Cancer Research, OF1–OF12. https://doi.org/10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-24-0544
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Steg, P. G., Nicolas, J., Baber, U., Sartori, S., Zhang, Z., Feng, Y., Angiolillo, D. J., Briguori, C., Cohen, D. J., Collier, T., Dangas, G., Dudek, D., Escaned, J., Gibson, C. M., Han, Y.-L., Huber, K., Kastrati, A., Kaul, U., Marx, S. O., … Mehran, R. (2025). Characterizing high-risk enrollment criteria and impact on clinical outcomes in a large randomized clinical trial: Insights from the TWILIGHT trial. American Heart Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2025.01.016
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Corvo, C., Mendez-David, I., Goutal, S., Saba, W., Bottlaender, M., Caillé, F., Hen, R., Colle, R., Corruble, E., Tournier, N., Leroy, C., & David, D. J. (2025). Synaptic Vesicle 2A (SV2A) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging as a Marker of Therapeutic Response in a Mouse Model of Depression. ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science, 8(2), 339–345. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsptsci.4c00621
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Perry-Hauser, N. A., Du Rand, J. R., Lee, K. H., Shi, L., & Javitch, J. A. (2025). N-terminal fragment shedding contributes to signaling of the full-length adhesion receptor ADGRL3. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 108174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2025.108174
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Zahr, T., Li, T., Bhansali, D., Wan, Q., Leong, K. W., & Qiang, L. (2024). Targeted delivery of a cationic dendrimer with a plaque-homing peptide for the treatment of atherosclerosis. Life Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1093/lifemedi/lnae039
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del Rivero Morfin, P. J., Chavez, D. S., Jayaraman, S., Yang, L., Geisler, S. M., Kochiss, A. L., Tuluc, P., Colecraft, H. M., Marx, S. O., Liu, X. S., Rajadhyaksha, A. M., & Ben-Johny, M. (2024). A genetically encoded actuator boosts L-type calcium channel function in diverse physiological settings. Science Advances, 10(44). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq3374
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Matsui, M., Lynch, L. E., Distefano, I., Galante, A., Gade, A. R., Wang, H.-G., Gómez-Banoy, N., Towers, P., Sinden, D. S., Wei, E. Q., Barnett, A. S., Johnson, K., Lima, R., Rubio-Navarro, A., Li, A. K., Marx, S. O., McGraw, T. E., Thornton, P. S., Timothy, K. W., … Pitt, G. S. (2024). Multiple beta cell-independent mechanisms drive hypoglycemia in Timothy syndrome. Nature Communications, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52885-3
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Kassraian, P., Bigler, S. K., Gilly Suarez, D. M., Shrotri, N., Barnett, A., Lee, H.-J., Young, W. S., & Siegelbaum, S. A. (2024). The hippocampal CA2 region discriminates social threat from social safety. Nature Neuroscience, 27(11), 2193–2206. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-024-01771-8
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Lin, X., Provasi, D., Niswender, C. M., Asher, W. B., & Javitch, J. A. (2024). Elucidating the molecular logic of a metabotropic glutamate receptor heterodimer. Nature Communications, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52822-4
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Urso, A., Monk, I. R., Cheng, Y.-T., Predella, C., Wong Fok Lung, T., Theiller, E. M., Boylan, J., Perelman, S., Baskota, S. U., Moustafa, A. M., Lohia, G., Lewis, I. A., Howden, B. P., Stinear, T. P., Dorrello, N. V., Torres, V., & Prince, A. S. (2024). Staphylococcus aureus adapts to exploit collagen-derived proline during chronic infection. Nature Microbiology, 9(10), 2506–2521. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01769-9
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Olivetti, P. R., Torres-Herraez, A., Gallo, M. E., Raudales, R., Sumerau, M., Moyles, S., Balsam, P. D., & Kellendonk, C. (2024). Inhibition of striatal indirect pathway during second postnatal week leads to long-lasting deficits in motivated behavior. Neuropsychopharmacology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-024-01997-x
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Havel, V., Kruegel, A. C., Bechand, B., McIntosh, S., Stallings, L., Hodges, A., Wulf, M. G., Nelson, M., Hunkele, A., Ansonoff, M., Pintar, J. E., Hwu, C., Ople, R. S., Abi-Gerges, N., Zaidi, S. A., Katritch, V., Yang, M., Javitch, J. A., Majumdar, S., … Sames, D. (2024). Oxa-Iboga alkaloids lack cardiac risk and disrupt opioid use in animal models. Nature Communications, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51856-y
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Lee, I., Knickerbocker, A. C., Depew, C. R., Martin, E. L., Dicent, J., Miller, G. W., & Bucher, M. L. (2024). Effect of altered production and storage of dopamine on development and behavior in C. elegans. Frontiers in Toxicology, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/ftox.2024.1374866
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L’Esperance, O. J., McGhee, J., Davidson, G., Niraula, S., Smith, A. S., Sosunov, A. A., Yan, S. S., & Subramanian, J. (2024). Functional Connectivity Favors Aberrant Visual Network c-Fos Expression Accompanied by Cortical Synapse Loss in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 101(1), 111–131. https://doi.org/10.3233/jad-240776
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Petersen, D., Raudales, R., Silva, A. K., Kellendonk, C., & Canetta, S. (2024). Adolescent Thalamoprefrontal Inhibition Leads to Changes in Intrinsic Prefrontal Network Connectivity. Eneuro, 11(8), ENEURO.0284-24.2024. https://doi.org/10.1523/eneuro.0284-24.2024
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Wang, X., Marmouzi, I., Finnie, P. S. B., Bucher, M. L., Yan, Y., Williams, E. Q., Støve, S. I., Lipina, T. V., Ramsey, A. J., Miller, G. W., & Salahpour, A. (2024). Tricyclic and tetracyclic antidepressants upregulate VMAT2 activity and rescue disease-causing VMAT2 variants. Neuropsychopharmacology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-024-01914-2
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Bucher, M. L., Dicent, J., Duarte Hospital, C., & Miller, G. W. (2024). Neurotoxicology of dopamine: Victim or assailant?. Neurotoxicology, 103, 175–188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuro.2024.06.001

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Bolondi, A., Law, B. K., Kretzmer, H., Gassaloglu, S. I., Buschow, R., Riemenschneider, C., Yang, D., Walther, M., Veenvliet, J. V., Meissner, A., Smith, Z. D., & Chan, M. M. (2024). Reconstructing axial progenitor field dynamics in mouse stem cell-derived embryoids. Developmental Cell, 59(12), 1489-1505.e14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2024.03.024
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Katchman, A. N., Zakharov, S. I., Bohnen, M. S., Sanchez Jimenez, A., Kushner, J. S., Yang, L., Chen, B., Nasari, A., Liu, G., Rabbani, D. E., Han, J., Leu, C.-S., Pitt, G. S., & Marx, S. O. (2024). Augmented Cardiac Inotropy by Phosphodiesterase Inhibition Requires Phosphorylation of Rad and Increased Calcium Current. Circulation, 149(20), 1617–1620. https://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.123.067298
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Zuo, H., Park, J., Frangaj, A., Ye, J., Lu, G., Manning, J. J., Asher, W. B., Lu, Z., Hu, G., Wang, L., Mendez, J., Eng, E., Zhang, Z., Lin, X., Grassucci, R., Hendrickson, W. A., Clarke, O. B., Javitch, J. A., Conigrave, A. D., & Fan, Q. R. (2024). Promiscuous G-protein activation by the calcium-sensing receptor. Nature, 629(8011), 481–488. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07331-1
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Samanta, S., Akhter, F., Roy, A., Chen, D., Turner, B., Wang, Y., Clemente, N., Wang, C., Swerdlow, R. H., Battaile, K. P., Lovell, S., Yan, S. F., & Yan, S. S. (2023). New cyclophilin D inhibitor rescues mitochondrial and cognitive function in Alzheimer’s disease. Brain, 147(5), 1710–1725. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awad432
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Papachristodoulou, A., Heidegger, I., Virk, R. K., Di Bernardo, M., Kim, J. Y., Laplaca, C., Picech, F., Schäfer, G., De Castro, G. J., Hibshoosh, H., Loda, M., Klocker, H., Rubin, M. A., Zheng, T., Benson, M. C., McKiernan, J. M., Dutta, A., & Abate-Shen, C. (2024). Metformin Overcomes the Consequences of NKX3.1 Loss to Suppress Prostate Cancer Progression. European Urology, 85(4), 361–372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2023.07.016
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Lee, W.-L., Westergaard, X., Hwu, C., Hwu, J., Fiala, T., Lacefield, C., Boltaev, U., Mendieta, A. M., Lin, L., Sonders, M. S., Brown, K. R., He, K., Asher, W. B., Javitch, J. A., Sulzer, D., & Sames, D. (2024). Molecular Design of SERTlight: A Fluorescent Serotonin Probe for Neuronal Labeling in the Brain. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146(14), 9564–9574. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c11617
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Bucher, M. L., Dunn, A. R., Bradner, J. M., Egerton, K. S., Burkett, J. P., Johnson, M. A., & Miller, G. W. (2024). Synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2C enhances vesicular storage of dopamine and counters dopaminergic toxicity. European Journal of Neuroscience, 59(10), 2483–2501. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16311
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Bekdash, R., Yoshida, K., Nair, M. S., Qiu, L., Ahdout, J., Tsai, H.-Y., Uryu, K., Soni, R. K., Huang, Y., Ho, D. D., & Yazawa, M. (2024). Developing inhibitory peptides against SARS-CoV-2 envelope protein. PLOS Biology, 22(3), e3002522. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002522
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Arriaga, J. M., Ronaldson-Bouchard, K., Picech, F., Nunes de Almeida, F., Afari, S., Chhouri, H., Vunjak-Novakovic, G., & Abate-Shen, C. (2024). In vivo genome-wide CRISPR screening identifies CITED2 as a driver of prostate cancer bone metastasis. Oncogene, 43(17), 1303–1315. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41388-024-02995-5
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Qi, L., Iskols, M., Shi, D., Reddy, P., Walker, C., Lezgiyeva, K., Voisin, T., Pawlak, M., Kuchroo, V. K., Chiu, I. M., Ginty, D. D., & Sharma, N. (2024). A mouse DRG genetic toolkit reveals morphological and physiological diversity of somatosensory neuron subtypes. Cell, 187(6), 1508-1526.e16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.02.006
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Gelsinger, D. R., Vo, P. L. H., Klompe, S. E., Ronda, C., Wang, H. H., & Sternberg, S. H. (2024). Bacterial genome engineering using CRISPR-associated transposases. Nature Protocols, 19(3), 752–790. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-023-00927-3
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Deng, H., Deng, H., Kim, C., Li, P., Wang, X., Yu, Y., & Qin, T. (2023). Synthesis of nimbolide and its analogues and their application as poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 trapping inducers. Nature Synthesis, 3(3), 378–385. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-023-00437-w
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Tsai, M.-H. M., Chen, L., Baumann, M. H., Canals, M., Javitch, J. A., Lane, J. R., & Shi, L. (2024). In Vitro Functional Profiling of Fentanyl and Nitazene Analogs at the μ-Opioid Receptor Reveals High Efficacy for Gi Protein Signaling. ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 15(4), 854–867. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.3c00750
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Niraula, S., Yan, S. S., & Subramanian, J. (2023). Amyloid Pathology Impairs Experience-Dependent Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity. The Journal of Neuroscience, 44(5), e0702232023. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0702-23.2023
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Weng, C., Yu, F., Yang, D., Poeschla, M., Liggett, L. A., Jones, M. G., Qiu, X., Wahlster, L., Caulier, A., Hussmann, J. A., Schnell, A., Yost, K. E., Koblan, L. W., Martin-Rufino, J. D., Min, J., Hammond, A., Ssozi, D., Bueno, R., Mallidi, H., … Sankaran, V. G. (2024). Deciphering cell states and genealogies of human haematopoiesis. Nature, 627(8003), 389–398. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07066-z
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Kim, C., Wang, X.-D., Liu, Z., Hao, J., Wang, S., Li, P., Zi, Z., Ding, Q., Jang, S., Kim, J., Luo, Y., Huffman, K. E., Pal Choudhuri, S., del Rio, S., Cai, L., Liang, H., Drapkin, B. J., Minna, J. D., & Yu, Y. (2024). Induced degradation of lineage-specific oncoproteins drives the therapeutic vulnerability of small cell lung cancer to PARP inhibitors. Science Advances, 10(3). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh2579
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Papa, A., del Rivero Morfin, P. J., Chen, B.-X., Yang, L., Katchman, A. N., Zakharov, S. I., Liu, G., Bohnen, M. S., Zheng, V., Katz, M., Subramaniam, S., Hirsch, J. A., Weiss, S., Dascal, N., Karlin, A., Pitt, G. S., Colecraft, H. M., Ben-Johny, M., & Marx, S. O. (2024). A membrane-associated phosphoswitch in Rad controls adrenergic regulation of cardiac calcium channels. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 134(5). https://doi.org/10.1172/jci176943
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Liu, B., Xie, D., Huang, X., Jin, S., Dai, Y., Sun, X., Li, D., Bennett, A. M., Diano, S., & Huang, Y. (2024). Skeletal muscle TET3 promotes insulin resistance through destabilisation of PGC-1α. Diabetologia, 67(4), 724–737. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-023-06073-5
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Pakula, H., Omar, M., Carelli, R., Pederzoli, F., Fanelli, G. N., Pannellini, T., Socciarelli, F., Van Emmenis, L., Rodrigues, S., Fidalgo-Ribeiro, C., Nuzzo, P. V., Brady, N. J., Dinalankara, W., Jere, M., Valencia, I., Saladino, C., Stone, J., Unkenholz, C., Garner, R., … Loda, M. (2024). Distinct mesenchymal cell states mediate prostate cancer progression. Nature Communications, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44210-1
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