Experiments

Searchable full-text extractions: founding hypothesis, core claims, experimental setups, key results and statistics — pulled out of each paper as structure. Search a cell line, an assay or an entity (e.g. HUH7) and find every paper that worked with it. This corpus stands on its own: most entries carry no reproduction assessment (yet).

• Proteomic analysis of integrin-associated complexes identifies RCC2 as a dual regulator of Rac1 and Arf6.

  PMID 19738201 · PMC2857963 · Science signaling · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A novel ligand-affinity/cross-linking proteomic methodology enables isolation of labile integrin-associated signaling complexes

  α5+ computational k562 embryonic ligand tandem hierarchical

• Inferring a spatial code of cell-cell interactions across a whole animal body.

  PMID 36395331 · PMC9714814 · PLoS computational biology · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  cell2cell computes cell-cell interaction (CCI) potential using a novel modified Bray-Curtis score based on complementary coexpression of ligand-receptor pairs between cells

  elegans computational single-cell random genetic

• Unusual linkage patterns of ligands and their cognate receptors indicate a novel reason for non-random gene order in the human genome.

  PMID 16277660 · PMC1309615 · BMC evolutionary biology · 2005 · 8 claims · 5 setups

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  Ligands are not more closely linked (shorter physical distance) to their cognate receptors than expected by chance

  genome genomic chromosome randomization

• A ligand-centered framework for γδ T cell activation in colorectal cancer revealed by single-cell and transformer-based perturbation.

  PMID 41607803 · PMC12835328 · Frontiers in immunology · 2025 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  CRC-infiltrating γδ T cells show varied activation levels, with the TRM-like population being the major tumor-infiltrating subtype and exhibiting the lowest effector and exhaustion signature scores.

  crc-infiltrating crc scrna-seq gene nichenet

• DLX2 marks an immunosuppressive dendritic-cell program that reshapes cytotoxic immunity and marks a tolerogenic microenvironment in lung adenocarcinoma.

  PMID 41761000 · PMC13043845 · Discover oncology · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Neuroactive ligand–receptor signaling is among the most significantly upregulated pathways in LUAD relative to normal lung tissue.

  tcga-luad tcga luad dendritic-cell bulk survival pan-cancer

• Target identification for repurposed drugs active against SARS-CoV-2 via high-throughput inverse docking.

  PMID 34825285 · PMC8616721 · Journal of computer-aided molecular design · 2022 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  Combining Vinardo, Ledock, and Korp-PL scoring functions (via averaged Z-scores) improves correct target identification over any single scoring function.

  curated repurposed glycosylated interior inverse molecular exploratory

• GLIDA: GPCR--ligand database for chemical genomics drug discovery--database and tools update.

  PMID 17986454 · PMC2238933 · Nucleic acids research · 2008 · 7 claims · 5 setups

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  GLIDA is a public relational database integrating biological information on GPCRs with chemical information on their ligands and their binding interactions.

  ligand gpcr glida principal sequence gene

• BioDrugScreen: a computational drug design resource for ranking molecules docked to the human proteome.

  PMID 19923229 · PMC2808957 · Nucleic acids research · 2010 · 6 claims · 5 setups

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  BioDrugScreen is a web resource providing pre-docked and pre-scored receptor-ligand complexes for ranking molecules against human proteome targets

  docked targets molecular binding continuum

• SLIT3 fragments orchestrate neurovascular expansion and thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue.

  PMID 41881972 · PMC13018599 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Adipocyte progenitors secrete SLIT3, which is cleaved into SLIT3-N and SLIT3-C fragments that independently drive angiogenesis and sympathetic innervation, respectively

  bat brown single-cell qpcr western

• Calibrating tissue level PDE models of ligand dynamics using single cell and spatial transcriptomics data.

  PMID 41714655 · PMC13039149 · NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics data provide a rich, underused source of information for calibrating tissue-scale PDE models of ligand dynamics.

  skin combined annotated scrna-seq single-cell spatial cell2location

• Unveiling critical signaling pathways in the murine salivary gland and the role of midkine.

  PMID 41732276 · PMC12925232 · iScience · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  CellChat analysis of scRNA-seq data from E12, E14, and E16 murine SMG reveals distinct and evolving ligand-receptor signaling networks across developmental stages

  submandibular smg e13.5 single immunofluorescence organ

• Analysis of subcellular transcriptomes by RNA proximity labeling with Halo-seq.

  PMID 34875090 · PMC8887463 · Nucleic acids research · 2022 · 6 claims · 8 setups

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  Halo-seq pairs a light-activatable Halo-DBF ligand with Click chemistry to label and purify spatially defined RNA populations in living cells with high spatial specificity (~100 nm radius)

  hela apex-seq proximity dot comparative

• Cotranscriptional RNA strand exchange underlies the gene regulation mechanism in a purine-sensing transcriptional riboswitch.

  PMID 35348734 · PMC9756952 · Nucleic acids research · 2022 · 7 claims · 6 setups

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  A nascent intermediate central helix forms in the yxjA riboswitch that is mutually exclusive with both the aptamer's P1 helix and the expression platform's intrinsic terminator hairpin.

  coli yxja refolded flow bulk cotranscriptional

• Tensor-cell2cell v2 unravels coordinated dynamics of protein- and metabolite-mediated cell-cell communication.

  PMID 41719185 · PMC12937581 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026 · 8 claims · 4 setups

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  Tensor-cell2cell v2 implements a non-negative coupled tensor component analysis (CTCA) that jointly factorizes protein- and metabolite-mediated communication tensors sharing context, sender, and receiver dimensions while keeping ligand-type-specific (private) dimensions separate.

  cortical paired single-cell protein-mediated metabolite-mediated

• FineST: contrastive learning integrates histology and spatial transcriptomics for nuclei-resolved ligand-receptor analysis.

  PMID 41839892 · PMC13201544 · Nature communications · 2026 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  FineST, a bimodal contrastive learning model integrating histology (Virchow2 ViT features) and spatial gene expression, enables nuclei-resolved high-resolution RNA imputation.

  colorectal crc breast he-stained spatial type ccc

• The scientific impact of the Structural Genomics Consortium: a protein family and ligand-centered approach to medically-relevant human proteins.

  PMID 17932789 · PMC2140095 · Journal of structural and functional genomics · 2007 · 8 claims · 6 setups

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  A family-based target selection approach (rather than genome-wide or fold-novelty based selection) maximizes cross-member methodological transfer and biological insight

  recombinant target coli x-ray differential analytical

• Spatial separation and bidirectional trafficking of proteins using a multi-functional reporter.

  PMID 18384686 · PMC2359743 · BMC cell biology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  β1Int-HaloTag fusion protein localizes to the cell membrane in a pattern similar to endogenous β1 integrin, indicating the fusion does not disrupt normal integrin surface expression

  hela hek293 live immunocytochemistry live fluorescence

• The application of genomics to emerging zoonotic viral diseases.

  PMID 19855817 · PMC2734983 · PLoS pathogens · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  High-throughput sequencing, mRNA expression profiling, and SNP microarray analysis enable rapid identification and genomic characterization of emerging zoonotic pathogens and host responses to them.

  siv-infected plasmacytoid migratory influenza transcriptional tlr fecal

• The flexible pocketome engine for structural chemogenomics.

  PMID 19727619 · PMC2975493 · Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2009 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  A comprehensive structural Pocketome combined with ensemble docking enables de novo, structure-based prediction of ligand binding poses and activities for new proteins and new chemical scaffolds.

  pdb bacteriorhodopsin enr asn automated virtual energy-based

• Better smelling through genetics: mammalian odor perception.

  PMID 18938244 · PMC2590501 · Current opinion in neurobiology · 2008 · 8 claims · 8 setups

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  Odorant receptor (OR) gene repertoire size and pseudogene fraction vary dramatically across mammalian species

  mammals subjects v1r trpc2 comparative genetic targeted