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Cotto-Rios X, Agianian B, Gitego, N, Zacharioudakis E, Giricz O, Wu Y, Yiyu, Z, Verma A, Poulikakos PI, Gavathiotis E. Inhibitors of BRAF dimers using an allosteric site. Nature Comms. (2020) 11:4370
Amgalan D, Garner TP, Pekson R, Jia XF, Yanamandala M, Paulino V, Liang FG, Corbalan JJ, Lee J, Chen Y, Karagiannis GS, Sanchez LS, Liang H, Narayanagari SR, Mitchell K, Lopez A, Margulets V, Scarlata M, Santulli G, Asnani A, Peterson RT, Hazan RB, Condeelis JS, Oktay MH, Steidl U, Kirshenbaum LA, Gavathiotis E.*, Kitsis RN* A small molecule allosteric inhibitor of BAX protects against doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy. Nature Cancer 2020. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43018-020-0039-1
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Chen X, Glytsou C, Zhou H, Narang S, Reyna DE, Lopez A, Sakellaropoulos T, Gong Y, Kloetgen A, Yap YS, Wang E, Gavathiotis E, Tsirigos A, Tibes R, Aifantis I. Targeting Mitochondrial Structure Sensitizes Acute Myeloid Leukemia to Venetoclax Treatment. Cancer Discov. 2019, 9:1-20
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Zhang J, Johnson JL, He J, Napolitano G, Ramadass M, Rocca C, Kiosses WB, Bucci C, Xin Q, Gavathiotis E, Cuervo AM, Cherqui S, Catz SD. Cystinosin, the small GTPase Rab11, and the Rab7 effector RILP regulate intracellular trafficking of the chaperone-mediated autophagy receptor LAMP2A. J. Biol. Chem. 2017, jbc.M116.764076
Franco A, Kitsis RN, Fleischer JA, Gavathiotis E, Kornfeld OS, Gong G, Biris N, Benz A, Qvit N, Donnelly SK, Chen Y, Mennerick S, Hodgson L, Mochly-Rosen D, Dorn GW 2nd. Correcting mitochondrial fusion by minipulating mitofusin conformations. Nature 2016, 540: 74-79
Johnson JL, Ramadass M, He J, Brown SJ, Zhang J, Abgaryan L, Biris N, Gavathiotis E, Rosen H, Catz SD. Identification of Nexinhibs, small-molecule inhibitors of neutrophil exocytosis and inflammation. Druggability of the small GTPase Rab27a. J. Biol. Chem. 2016, 291: 25965-25982
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Garner TP, Reyna DE, Priyadarshi A, Chen HC, Li S, Ganesan, YT, Malashkevich VN, Almo SS, Cheng EH, Gavathiotis E. An Autoinhibited Dimeric Form of BAX Regulates the BAX Activation Pathway. Mol. Cell 2016, 63: 485-497.
Cotto-Rios XM, Gavathiotis E. Unraveling cell death mysteries. Nat. Chem. Biol. 2016 12: 470-471
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Uchime O, Dai Z, Biris N, Lee D, Sidhu SS, Li S, Lai JR, Gavathiotis E. Synthetic Antibodies Inhibit Bcl-2-associated X Protein (BAX) through Blockade of the N-terminal Activation Site. J. Biol. Chem. 2015, 291: 89-102.
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Barclay LA, Wales TE, Garner TP, Wachter F, Lee S, Guerra R, Stewart ML, Braun CR, Bird GH, Gavathiotis E, Engen JR, Walensky LD. Inhibition of Pro-apoptotic BAX by a noncanonical interaction mechanism. Mol. Cell 2015, 57: 1-14.
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Papadopoulos E, Jenni S, Kabha E, Takrouri KJ, Yi T, Salvi N, Luna RE, Gavathiotis E, Mahalingam P, Arthanari H, Rodriguez-Mias R, Freedman RY, Aktas BA, Chorev M, Halperin JA, Wagner G. Structure of the translation initiation factor eIF4E in complex with 4EGI-1 reveals an allosteric mechanism for dissociating eIF4G, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2014, 111: E3187-E3195.
Bird GH, Gavathiotis E, Labelle JL, Katz SG, Walensky LD. Distinct BimBH3 (BimSAHB) Stapled Peptides for Structural and Cellular Studies. ACS Chem. Biol. 2014, 9: 831-837.
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Cohen NA, Stewart ML, Gavathiotis E, Tepper JL, Opferman JT, Walensky LD. A competitive stapled peptide screen identified a selective small molecule that overcomes MCL-1 dependent leukemia cell survival. Chem & Biol. 2012, 19: 1175-1186.
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