ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2024
WD Repeat Domain 5 Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy: Not What You Think.
Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Decoding WDR5-Mediated Interactions in Gliomas: Implications for Targeted Therapy.Medicinal research reviews · 2026Review
- Structural characterization of endogenous microprotein EMBOW reveals an alternative MRT motif for WDR5-interacting site recognition.The FEBS journal · 2026Article
- The role of the WD40-repeat protein family in cancer.Molecular cancer · 2026Review
- Development and characterization of triazole-based WDR5 inhibitors for the treatment of glioblastoma.JCI insight · 2026Article
- Massive barcode-free chemical screenings enable the discovery of bioactive macrocycles with passive membrane permeability.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Disrupting the ASH2L-DPY30 PPI in cancer: structure, function, and therapeutic opportunities in H3K4 methylation.Epigenetics & chromatin · 2026Review
- A fusion-based multiomics classification approach for enhanced gene discovery in non-small cell lung cancer.Bioinformatics advances · 2026Article
- Crystal structures of Kif2A complexed with WDR5 reveal the structural plasticity of WIN-S7 sites.Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica · 2025Article
- Expanded profiling of WD repeat domain 5 inhibitors reveals actionable strategies for the treatment of hematologic malignancies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Ribosome subunit attrition and activation of the p53-MDM4 axis dominate the response of MLL-rearranged cancer cells to WDR5 WIN site inhibition.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
WDR5 is a conserved nuclear protein that scaffolds the assembly of epigenetic regulatory complexes and moonlights in functions ranging from recruiting MYC oncoproteins to chromatin to facilitating the integrity of mitosis. It is also a high-value target for anti-cancer therapies, with small molecule WDR5 inhibitors and degraders undergoing extensive preclinical assessment. WDR5 inhibitors were originally conceived as epigenetic modulators, proposed to inhibit cancer cells by reversing oncogenic patterns of histone H3 lysine 4 methylation-a notion that persists to this day. This premise, however, does not withstand contemporary inspection and establishes expectations for the mechanisms and utility of WDR5 inhibitors that can likely never be met. Here, we highlight salient misconceptions regarding WDR5 inhibitors as epigenetic modulators and provide a unified model for their action as a ribosome-directed anti-cancer therapy that helps focus understanding of when and how the tumor-inhibiting properties of these agents can best be understood and exploited.
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