A small-molecule pan-Id antagonist inhibits pathologic ocular neovascularization

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Paulina M. Wojnarowicz, Raquel Lima e Silva, Masayuki Ohanka, Sang Bae Lee, Yvette Chin, Anita Kulukian, Sung-Hee Chang, Bina Desai, Marta Garcia Escolano, Riddhi Shah, Marta Garcia-Cao, Sijia Xu, Rashmi Thakar, Yehuda Goldgur, Meredith A. Miller, Ouathek Ouerfelli, Guangli Yang, Tsutomu Arakawa, Steven K. Albanese, William A. Garland, Glenn Stoller, Jaideep Chaudhary, Rajesh Soni, John Philip, Ronald C. Hendrickson, Antonio Iavarone, Andrew J. Dannenberg, John D. Chodera, Nikola Pavletich, Anna Lasorella, Peter A. Campochiaro, and Robert Benezra
Cell Reports 29:62, 2019 [DOI] [PDF]

We report the discovery and characterization of a small molecule, AGX51, with the surprising ability to inhibit the interaction of Id1 with E47, which leads to ubiquitin-mediated degradation of Ids.