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Nature Chemical Biology 4, 226–227 (1 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/nchembio0408-226

Fast-tracking steroid receptor crystallization

Sylvie Mader

Steroid receptors are attractive drug targets because of their important biological roles as transcription factors naturally modulated by small signaling molecules. Development of drugs targeting these receptors has preceded by far a detailed understanding of the mechanisms of action of either natural or synthetic ligands.