Chemical genetics: ligand-based discovery of gene functionB R Stockwell
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
Nat Rev Genet 1:116-25. 2000
..The growing sophistication of this approach raises the possibility of its application to any biological process...
Frontiers in chemical geneticsB R Stockwell
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Nine Cambridge Center, MA 02142, USA
Trends Biotechnol 18:449-55. 2000
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Chemical genetic screening approaches to neurobiologyBrent R Stockwell
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Nine Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
Neuron 36:559-62. 2002
..This powerful set of tools will enable the molecular dissection of complex processes that occur within the nervous system...
Detecting spatial patterns in biological array experimentsDavid E Root
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142-1479, USA
J Biomol Screen 8:393-8. 2003
..In addition, the authors employ a statistical test to allow for automatic detection of such errors. Software tools for using this approach are provided...
Exploring biology with small organic moleculesBrent R Stockwell
Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, 614 Fairchild Center, MC 2406, New York, New York 10027, USA
Nature 432:846-54. 2004
..The mapping of biological-activity space using small molecules is akin to mapping the stars--uncharted territory is explored using a system of coordinates that describes where each new feature lies...
Advances in chemical geneticsInese Smukste
Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, Fairchild Center, New York, New York 10027, USA
Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet 6:261-86. 2005
..Several technologies have converged, raising the hope that it may be possible to systematically apply chemical probes to biological processes...
Biologically active molecules that reduce polyglutamine aggregation and toxicityUrvee A Desai
Department of Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, San Francisco, CA 94143-2280, USA
Hum Mol Genet 15:2114-24. 2006
..The high predictive value of the primary screen suggests that the FRET-based screening assay may be useful for further primary and secondary screens for genes or small molecules that inhibit polyglutamine protein aggregation...
Chemical genetic approaches to probing cell deathNidhi M Gangadhar
Department of Biological Sciences, 614 Fairchild Center, New York, NY 10027, USA
Curr Opin Chem Biol 11:83-7. 2007
..Recent advances include the discovery of novel small molecules regulating cell death pathways -- necrostatin and erastin -- as well as the elucidation of the mechanism of death induced in cancer cells by the cytotoxic agent Apratoxin A...
Selective inhibitors of death in mutant huntingtin cellsHemant Varma
Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, Fairchild Center, MC 2406, 1212 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, New York 10027, USA
Nat Chem Biol 3:99-100. 2007
..Four compounds were active in diverse HD models, which suggests a role for cell death in HD; these compounds are mechanistic probes and potential drug leads for HD...