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482
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Overview

Timothy M. Willson is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broad areas, their subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Infectious Diseases, and Pharmacology.

Willson's recent scholarly output features several papers published between 2020 and 2022. Notable publications include:

  • Quantifying CDK inhibitor selectivity in live cells, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The Kinase Chemogenomic Set (KCGS): An Open Science Resource for Kinase Vulnerability Identification, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Generative and reinforcement learning approaches for the automated de novo design of bioactive compounds, 2022, Communications Chemistry
  • Crowdsourced mapping of unexplored target space of kinase inhibitors, 2021, Nature Communications
  • CACHE (Critical Assessment of Computational Hit-finding Experiments): A public-private partnership benchmarking initiative to enable the development of computational methods for hit-finding, 2022, Nature Reviews Chemistry

The scientist has published extensively in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Nature Communications

Their research topics commonly cover:

  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Synthesis and biological activity
  • Protein Degradation and Inhibitors
  • Biochemical and Molecular Research
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • HIV Research and Treatment

Collaboration appears to be a significant aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include Carrow I. Wells, Nathaniel J. Moorman, David H. Drewry, Alison D. Axtman, and Mohammad Anwar Hossain.

Best Publications

  • An Antidiabetic Thiazolidinedione Is a High Affinity Ligand for Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor γ (PPARγ)

    Jürgen M. Lehmann;Linda B. Moore;Tracey A. Smith-Oliver;William O. Wilkison

  • The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma is a negative regulator of macrophage activation

    Mercedes Ricote;Andrew C. Li;Andrew C. Li;Timothy M. Willson;Carolyn J. Kelly

  • Fatty acids and eicosanoids regulate gene expression through direct interactions with peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors α and γ

    Steven A. Kliewer;Scott S. Sundseth;Stacey A. Jones;Peter J. Brown

  • A prostaglandin J2 metabolite binds peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ and promotes adipocyte differentiation

    Steven A. Kliewer;James M. Lenhard;Timothy M. Willson;Inder Patel

  • Bile Acids: Natural Ligands for an Orphan Nuclear Receptor

    Derek J. Parks;Steven G. Blanchard;Randy K. Bledsoe;Gyan Chandra

  • Ligand binding and co-activator assembly of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma.

    R T Nolte;G B Wisely;S Westin;J E Cobb

  • The PPARs: from orphan receptors to drug discovery.

    Timothy M. Willson;Peter J. Brown;Daniel D. Sternbach;Brad R. Henke

  • A Regulatory Cascade of the Nuclear Receptors FXR, SHP-1, and LRH-1 Represses Bile Acid Biosynthesis

    Bryan Goodwin;Stacey A. Jones;Roger R. Price;Michael A. Watson

  • The human orphan nuclear receptor PXR is activated by compounds that regulate CYP3A4 gene expression and cause drug interactions.

    Jürgen M. Lehmann;David D. McKee;Michael A. Watson;Timothy M. Willson

  • An Orphan Nuclear Receptor Activated by Pregnanes Defines a Novel Steroid Signaling Pathway

    Steven A Kliewer;John T Moore;Laura Wade;Jeff L Staudinger

  • The nuclear receptor PXR is a lithocholic acid sensor that protects against liver toxicity

    Jeffrey Leonard Staudinger;Jeffrey Leonard Staudinger;Bryan Goodwin;Stacey A. Jones;Diane Hawkins-Brown

  • Activation of the Nuclear Receptor LXR by Oxysterols Defines a New Hormone Response Pathway

    Jürgen M. Lehmann;Steven A. Kliewer;Linda B. Moore;Tracey A. Smith-Oliver

  • A SUMOylation-dependent pathway mediates transrepression of inflammatory response genes by PPAR-gamma.

    Gabriel Pascual;Amy L. Fong;Sumito Ogawa;Amir Gamliel

  • Molecular Recognition of Fatty Acids by Peroxisome Proliferator–Activated Receptors

    H.Eric Xu;Millard H Lambert;Valerie G Montana;Derek J Parks

  • A selective peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor δ agonist promotes reverse cholesterol transport

    William R. Oliver;Jennifer L. Shenk;Mike R. Snaith;Caroline S. Russell

  • The nuclear pregnane X receptor: a key regulator of xenobiotic metabolism.

    Steven A. Kliewer;Bryan Goodwin;Timothy M. Willson

  • St. John's wort induces hepatic drug metabolism through activation of the pregnane X receptor

    Linda B. Moore;Bryan Goodwin;Stacey A. Jones;G. Bruce Wisely

  • The pregnane X receptor: a promiscuous xenobiotic receptor that has diverged during evolution

    Stacey A. Jones;Linda B. Moore;Jennifer L. Shenk;G. Bruce Wisely

  • A unified nomenclature system for the nuclear receptor superfamily

    J. Auwerx;E. Baulieu;M. Beato;M. Becker-Andre

  • Synthetic LXR ligand inhibits the development of atherosclerosis in mice

    Sean B. Joseph;Elaine McKilligin;Liming Pei;Michael A. Watson

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven A. Kliewer
Steven A. Kliewer The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Millard H. Lambert
Millard H. Lambert GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
Stefan Knapp
Stefan Knapp Goethe University Frankfurt
Susanne Müller
Susanne Müller Structural Genomics Consortium
Peter Brown
Peter Brown University of Oxford
Opher Gileadi
Opher Gileadi Karolinska Institute
H. Eric Xu
H. Eric Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Frank J. Gonzalez
Frank J. Gonzalez National Institutes of Health
Scott E. Denmark
Scott E. Denmark University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Aled M. Edwards
Aled M. Edwards Structural Genomics Consortium

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