DDO-7263, a 1,2,4-Oxadiazole derivative, is a potent Nrf2 activator. DDO-7263 upregulates Nrf2 through binding to Rpn6 to block the assembly of 26S proteasome and the subsequent degradation of ubiquitinated Nrf2. DDO-7263 activates the Nrf2-ARE signaling pathway and exerts anti-inflammatory activity.

BNS is a cell penetrant, potent and selective PHD2 (prolyl-hydroxylase 2) inhibitor.

RAD140 is a potent, orally bioavailable, nonsteroidal selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM).

SB-756050 is a Farnesoid X receptor (FXR) (NR1H4) agonist.

SR-18292 is a PGC-1α inhibitor. SR-18292 reduces blood glucose, strongly increases hepatic insulin sensitivity, and improves glucose homeostasis in dietary and genetic mouse models of T2D.

SR9238 is a potent and selective LXR inverse agonist.

T0901317 is a potent, high affinity liver X receptor (LXR) agonist (EC50 ~ 50 nM, Kd values are 7 and 22 nM for LXR-α and LXR-β respectively).

Vadadustat is a novel, titratable, oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase (HIF-PH) inhibitor in development for the treatment of anemia.

WAY-362450 (XL335; Turofexorate isopropyl) is a highly potent, selective, and orally active farnesoid X receptor (FXR) agonist with an EC50 of 4 nM.WAY-362450 is useful for dyslipidemia.

YQ-0629 is a specific HIF-2α inhibitor, binds to HIF-2α PAS-B domain with Kd of 57.5 uM.YQ-0629 could inhibit the expression of HIF-2α with or without the presence of PTX (3 nM) in MCF7 MS culture, does not bind to HIF-1α or affect the expression of HIF-1α.YQ-0629 suppresses self-renewal capacity and synergizes with PTX to reverse the chemoresistance of MCF7 MS.YQ-0629 inhibits growth of BCSCs derived from breast cancer patients and synergistically increases anti-BCSCs activity of PTX in vivo.

WO95E is a novel potent, synthetic ligand (partial agonist) of PPARγ, directly binds to PPARγ with IC50 of 11 nM; WO95E's binding affinity is approximately 70-fold lower than that of UHC1 (Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2014;289(38):26618–26629.). WO95E significantly inhibited the S273 phosphorylation of PPARγ in 3T3-L1 differentiated adipocytes, led to the upregulation of the mRNA levels of a number of the PPARγ phosphorylation-dependent genes, including adiponectin, cycp2f2, Ddx-17, Rarres2, and Selenbp1. Unlike SR1664 and UHC1, WO95E does not bind to the canonical PPARγ ligand-binding pocket (LBP) containing H3, H3-4 loop, H11 and H12, which full agonist Rosi binds, instead, WO95E binds to the ABP comprising H2′-H3, β-sheet, and the Ω loop. WO95E improved glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity in DIO mice.

VPC-13789 (VPC13789) is a potent, selective, orally available inhibitor of androgen receptor binding function-3 (BF3) site.VPC-13789 suppresses AR-mediated transcription, chromatin binding, and recruitment of coregulatory proteins.VPC-13789 selectively reduces the growth of both androgen-dependent and enzalutamide-resistant PCa cell lines.VPC-13789 demonstrated in vitro efficacy that reduced PSA production and tumor volume in animal models of CRPC with no observed toxicity.

SR1555 is a selective RORγ inverse agonist (IC50=1.5 uM) that suppresses T(H)17 cells and stimulates T regulatory cells; SR1555 is devoid of LXR, FXR, and RORα activity, displaces [3H]T0901317 from the ligand binding domain (LBD) of RORγ with IC50 of 1 uM; represses the expression of RORγ while leading to increased expression of FGF21 and adipoQ in pre-adipocyctes, inhibits activation of hormone-sensitive lipase and increased fatty acid oxidation in obese diabetic mice.

Rohinitib is a potent and specific inhibitor of eIF4A1, inhibits growth and survival of AML cells especially cells with FLT3-ITD.

PPARγ pSer273-IN-10 is a specific, in vivo-active small molecule inhibitor of CDK5-mediated Ser273 phosphorylation of PPARγ without classical PPARγ agonism.PPARγ pSer273-IN-10 is a potent PPARγ binder and in vitro inhibitor of the CDK5-mediated phosphorylation of PPARγ Ser273 and displays negligible PPARγ agonism in a reporter gene assay. PPARγ pSer273-IN-10 demonstrated an improvement in insulin sensitivity in the ob/ob diabetic mouse model in 7 day treatment in vivo testing.

PKUMDL-YC-1205 is a specific small molecule that can specifically bind to the disordered bHLH-LZ domain of c-Myc (SPR kd=18 uM).PKUMDL-YC-1205 abrogates cell proliferation of HL-60 cells with IC50 of 40 uM, blocks the interaction between c-Myc370–409 and Max.

NXT629 (NXT-629) is a potent, selective PPARα antagonist with IC50 of 77 nM (human PPARα), no effect against PPARδ and PPARγ (IC50>30 uM).NXT629 inhibited agonist-induced transcription of PPARα-regulated genes, demonstrating target engagement in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cells.NXT629 induced apoptosis of CLL cells even in the presence of a protective microenvironment.NXT629 reduces the number of chronic leukemia cells undergoing cell division with IC50 of 9.6 uM.NXT629 reduces CLL tumor burden delays disease progression of CLL in CLL mouse model.

MB 07811 (MB07811) is an orally bioavailable, liver-targeted prodrug of MB07344, which is a thyroid hormone receptor-beta agonist (TRβ) agonist, efficiently converted to MB07344 by liver microsomes in vivo; reduces cholesterol and both serum and hepatic triglycerides at doses devoid of effects on body weight, glycemia, and the THA.

KUSC-5037 (KUSC5037) is a novel effective HIF-1 inhibitor with IC50 of 1.2 uM against HIF-1 transcriptional activity.KUSC-5037 suppressed the HIF-1α (a regulatory subunit of HIF-1) mRNA, causing decreases in the gene expression of HIF-1 target genes such as carbonic anhydrase 9 (CA9) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) genes.KUSC-5037 directly targets ATP5B protein, a catalytic β subunit of mitochondrial FoF1-ATP synthase.

KI-696 (KI696) is a highly potent, selective inhibitor of KEAP1-NRF2 interaction, exhibits very high affinity for the KEAP1 Kelch domain with ITC Kd of 1.3 nM.KI-696 displays high selectivity against a panel of 49 in vitro functional assays for targets, with the exception of the OATP1B1 (IC50=2.5 µM), the bile salt export pump BSEP (IC50=4.0 µM), and PDE3A (IC50=10 uM).KI-696 increases NRF2 nuclear translocation in normal human bronchial epithelial cells, up-regulates NRF2-dependent gene expression NQO1 and GCLM, and increases NQO1 activity in an NRF2-dependent manner.KI-696 significantly reduces ozone-induced pulmonary inflammation, restores ozone-induced depletion of lung GSH levels in vivo.

JNJ-pan-AR is a highly potent, selective antagonist of androgen receptor (AR) wild-type and F877L mutant for the treatment of the F877L mutant and wild-type CRPC.

HIF inhibitor 208 is a small molecule inhibitor of HIF pathway with IC50 of 0.5 nM.

GSK-2945 is a potent and selective small molecule Rev-Erbα agonist with EC50 of 50 nM, displays >1,000-fold selectivity over LXRα; inhibits LPS induction of IL-6 production and to upregulate expression of ABCA1 in human THP-1 cells; demonstrates in vivo bioavailability and orally active.

F1021-0686 is a novel small molecule inhibitor of c-Myc, causes the functional repression of c-Myc target gene, shows appreciable anticancer activity against c-Myc expressing cell lines (HT29, IC50=1.55 uM).F1021-0686 showed c-Myc dependent apoptotic cell death, efficiently inhibited the functionality of c-Myc, suppressed the expression of c-Myc target genes (CAD, ODC1, NOP58, and NOP56) both at the transcriptional and translational levels.F1021-0686 showed considerable in vitro efficacy against cancer stem cells (CSCs), inhibited sphere forming capacity of D341-CSCs with IC50 of 5.27 uM.

F0909-0360 is a novel small molecule inhibitor of c-Myc, causes the functional repression of c-Myc target gene, shows appreciable anticancer activity against c-Myc expressing cell lines (HT29, IC50=0.2 uM).F0909-0360 showed c-Myc dependent apoptotic cell death, efficiently inhibited the functionality of c-Myc, suppressed the expression of c-Myc target genes (CAD, ODC1, NOP58, and NOP56) both at the transcriptional and translational levels.F0909-0360 showed considerable in vitro efficacy against cancer stem cells (CSCs), inhibited sphere forming capacity of D341-CSCs with IC50 of 4.06 uM.

Exicorilant (CORT125281, CORT-125281) is a potent, selective glucocorticoid receptor (GR) antagonist, exhibits no cross-reactivity for the PR and AR receptors.

DN200434 (DN-200434) is a highly potent (functional IC50=6 nM, binding IC50=40 nM), selective, biocompatible and orally available ERRγ inverse agonist.DN200434 binds to key ERRγ binding pocket residues through four-way interactions.DN200434 effectively upregulated iodide-handling genes and restored radioiodine avidity in ATC tumor lesions.DN200434 enhanced ATC tumor radioiodine therapy susceptibility, markedly inhibiting tumor growth.DN200434 shows higher potency than GSK5182.

DC-TEADin1072 is a novel TEAD1/3 covalent inhibitor with biochemical IC50 values of 0.61 and 0.58 uM against TEAD1 and TEAD3, respectively.TEADin1072 selectively inhibited TEAD1 and TEAD3 palmitoylation while sparing TEAD2 and TEAD4.TEADin1072 demonstrated selective engagement with Cys371 of TEAD3 and Cys359 of TEAD1.

Cobalt protoporphyrin IX (CoPPIX) is a potent and effective inducer of HO-1 (heme oxygenase-1) activity, up-regulates HO-1 via Bach1 and Nrf2 in human liver cells.CoPPIX did not influence hepatic Bach1 or Nrf2 mRNA levels, but markedly reduced Bach1 protein levels by increasing degradation of Bach1 protein, and increased Nrf2 by decreasing degradation of Nrf2 protein.CoPPIX significantly upregulated HO-1 protein in mucosal and submucosal cells.CoPPIX is a direct Bach1 inhibitor.

Cl-OCH3 is an antagonist of nuclear receptor NR4A1, decreases PD-L1 protein expression in MDA-MB-231 and 4T1 cells with EC50 of 4.4 and 4.1 uM, respectively; Cl-OCH3 decreased expression of PD-L1 mRNA, promoter-dependent luciferase activity, and protein. In in vivo studies using a syngeneic mouse model bearing orthotopically injected 4T1 cells, Cl-OCH3 decreased tumor growth and weight and inhibited lung metastasis. Cl-OCH3 also decreased expression of CD3+/CD4+/CD25+/FoxP3+ regulatory T cells and increased the Teff/Treg ratio.