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Immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs), including thalidomide and its derivatives lenalidomide and pomalidomide, are currently used to treat multiple myeloma, myelodysplastic syndrome and complications from leprosy. The molecular bases for these clinical properties of IMiDs have been uncovered in research articles presented in this collection, along with related reviews and commentaries from Nature journals.
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Research Articles
Structure of the DDB1–CRBN E3 ubiquitin ligase in complex with thalidomide
Eric S. Fischer, Kerstin Böhm, John R. Lydeard, Haidi Yang, Michael B. Stadler et al.
Nature 512: 49-53 (2014)
doi:10.1038/nature13527
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Structure of the human Cereblon–DDB1–lenalidomide complex reveals basis for responsiveness to thalidomide analogs
Philip P Chamberlain, Antonia Lopez-Girona, Karen Miller, Gilles Carmel, Barbra Pagarigan et al.
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 21: 803-809 (2014)
doi:10.1038/nsmb.2874
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Lenalidomide induces ubiquitination and degradation of CK1α in del(5q) MDS
Jan Krönke, Emma C. Fink, Paul W. Hollenbach, Kyle J. MacBeth, Slater N. Hurst et al.
Nature 523: 183-188 (2015)
doi:10.1038/nature14610
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