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William Zuercher

Senior Principal Scientist, Pharma Research and Early Development, F. Hoffmann-La …
Verified email at roche.com
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The promise and peril of chemical probes

…, P Workman, RN Young, WJ Zuercher - Nature chemical …, 2015 - nature.com
Chemical probes are powerful reagents with increasing impacts on biomedical research.
However, probes of poor quality or that are used incorrectly generate misleading results. To …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive characterization of the published kinase inhibitor set

…, TM Willson, DH Drewry, S Knapp, WJ Zuercher - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Despite the success of protein kinase inhibitors as approved therapeutics, drug discovery
has focused on a small subset of kinase targets. Here we provide a thorough characterization …

Estrogen-related receptor-α is a metabolic regulator of effector T-cell activation and differentiation

…, O Ilkayeva, V Giguere, WJ Zuercher… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Stimulation of resting CD4 + T lymphocytes leads to rapid proliferation and differentiation
into effector (Teff) or inducible regulatory (Treg) subsets with specific functions to promote or …

Tandem ring opening− ring closing metathesis of cyclic olefins

WJ Zuercher, M Hashimoto… - Journal of the American …, 1996 - ACS Publications
Ruthenium alkylidene 1 has been utilized in the tandem ring opening−ring closing metathesis
of cyclic olefins. This reaction produces a bicyclic molecule from a cyclic olefin. Reactivity …

A public-private partnership to unlock the untargeted kinome

…, TM Willson, P Workman, WJ Zuercher - Nature chemical …, 2013 - nature.com
Chemical probes are urgently needed to functionally annotate hitherto-untargeted kinases
and stimulate new drug discovery efforts to address unmet medical needs. The size of the …

[PDF][PDF] The metabolic regulator ERRα, a downstream target of HER2/IGF-1R, as a therapeutic target in breast cancer

…, D Kazmin, JS Jasper, R Kunder, WJ Zuercher… - Cancer cell, 2011 - cell.com
A genomic signature designed to assess the activity of the estrogen-related receptor alpha (ERRα)
was used to profile more than 800 breast tumors, revealing a shorter disease-free …

[HTML][HTML] Progress towards a public chemogenomic set for protein kinases and a call for contributions

…, RA Denny, KS Saikatendu, DK Treiber, WJ Zuercher… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Protein kinases are highly tractable targets for drug discovery. However, the biological
function and therapeutic potential of the majority of the 500+ human protein kinases remains …

GSK4112, a small molecule chemical probe for the cell biology of the nuclear heme receptor Rev-erbα

…, S Joshi, MA Lazar, TM Willson, WJ Zuercher - ACS chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
The identification of nonporphyrin ligands for the orphan nuclear receptor Rev-erbα will
enable studies of its role as a heme sensor and regulator of metabolic and circadian signaling. …

[HTML][HTML] X-ray crystal structures of the estrogen-related receptor-γ ligand binding domain in three functional states reveal the molecular basis of small molecule …

L Wang, WJ Zuercher, TG Consler, MH Lambert… - Journal of Biological …, 2006 - ASBMB
X-ray crystal structures of the ligand binding domain (LBD) of the estrogen-related receptor-γ
(ERRγ) were determined that describe this receptor in three distinct states: unliganded, …

Seeding collaborations to advance kinase science with the GSK Published Kinase Inhibitor Set (PKIS)

…, TM Willson, WJ Zuercher - Current topics in …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
To catalyze research on historically untargeted protein kinases, we created the PKIS, an
annotated set of 367 small molecule kinase inhibitors. The set has been widely distributed to …