Scientific Journals and Books

2025
Highly potent quinoxalinediones inhibit alpha-hemolysin and ameliorate Staphylococcus aureus lung infections

Shekhar A, Di Lucrezia R, Jerye K, Korotkov V S, Harmrolfs K, Rox K, Weich H A, Ghai I, Delhommel F, Becher I, Degenhart C, Fansa E, Unger A, Habenberger P, Klebl B, Lukat P, Schmelz S, Henke S, Borgert S, Lang J C, Sasse F, Diestel R, Richter C, Schneider-Daum N, Hinkelmann B, Niemz J, Lehr C M, Jansch L, Huehn J, Alm R, Savitski M, Welte T, Hesterkamp T, Sattler M, Winterhalter M, Blankenfeldt W, Medina E, Bilitewski U, Dinkel K and Bronstrup M. Cell Host Microbe. 2025; 33 (4): 560-572 e521. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2025.03.006

The P2X7R-antagonist AFC-5128 ameliorates chronic experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in a preventive and therapeutic paradigm

Hoffrogge R, Karachunskaya A, Heitmann N, Pedreiturria X, Kloster K, Bader V, Winklhofer K F, Hamacher M, Klebl B, Gold R, Dinkel K, Kleiter I and Faissner S. Front Immunol. 2025; 16 1554999. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1554999

Design and Synthesis of Pyridine-Based Pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine Analogs as CSF1R Inhibitors: Molecular Hybridization and Scaffold Hopping Approach

Cherukupalli S, Degenhart C, Habenberger P, Unger A, Eickhoff J, Hoff B H and Sundby E. Pharmaceuticals. 2025; 18 (6): doi: 10.3390/ph18060814

RECQL4 affects MHC class II-mediated signalling and favours an immune-evasive signature that limits response to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in patients with malignant melanoma

Egea-Rodriguez S, Varaljai R, Nordmann T M, Lubis R, Philip M, Rambow F, Roesch A, Flaig M, Horn S, Stoll R, Zhao F, Paschen A, Klebl B, Hickson I D, Schadendorf D, Mann M and Helfrich I. Clin Transl Med. 2025; 15 (1): e70094. doi: 10.1002/ctm2.70094

P2X7R antagonism suppresses long-lasting hyperexcitability following traumatic brain injury in mice

Alves M, de Diego-Garcia L, Vegliante G, Moreno O, Gil B, Ramos-Cabrer P, Mitra M, Fernandez Martin A, Menendez Mendez A, Wang Y, Ryzwesky Strogulsky N, Sun M, Melia C, Conte G, Plaza-Garcia S, Khalin I, Teng X, Plesnila N, Klebl B, Dinkel K, Hamacher M, Bhattarcharya A, Ceusters M, Palmer J, Loane D, Llop J, Henshall D and Engel T. Theranostics. 2025; 15 (4): 1399-1419. doi: 10.7150/thno.97254

2021
Sequence-Selective Covalent CaaX-Box Receptors Prevent Farnesylation of Oncogenic Ras Proteins and Impact MAPK/PI3 K Signaling

Franz M, Morchen B, Degenhart C, Gulden D, Shkura O, Wolters D, Koch U, Klebl B, Stoll R, Helfrich I, Scherkenbeck J. ChemMedChem. 2021; 16 (16): 2504-2514. doi: 10.1002/cmdc.202100167

Structure-Activity Relationship Studies of Trisubstituted Isoxazoles as Selective Allosteric Ligands for the Retinoic-Acid-Receptor-Related Orphan Receptor γt.

Meijer F A, Saris A, Doveston R G, Oerlemans G J M, de Vries R, Somsen B A, Unger A, Klebl B, Ottmann C, Cossar P J, Brunsveld L. J Med Chem. 2021; 64 (13): 9238-9258. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c00475

Combinatorial Drug Treatments Reveal Promising Anticytomegaloviral Profiles for Clinically Relevant Pharmaceutical Kinase Inhibitors (PKIs)

Wild M, Kicuntod J, Seyler L, Wangen C, Bertzbach L D, Conradie A M, Kaufer B B, Wagner S, Michel D, Eickhoff J, Tsogoeva S B, Bauerle T, Hahn F, Marschall M. Int J Mol Sci. 2021; 22 (2): doi: 10.3390/ijms22020575