CD437

CD437 is the prototypical adamantyl arotinoid of the retinoid-related molecule family that acts as a selective agonist of retinoic acid receptor (RAR)γ (Kd = 6.5 µM, 2.5 µM, and 77 nM for RARα, β, and γ, respectively; Bernard et al.; Pérez-Rodríguez et al.).

REPROGRAMMING

• Increases speed and number of pre-induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell colonies generated from mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) transfected with Oct4, Sox2, c-Myc, and Klf4 (Wang et al.).

CANCER RESEARCH

• Induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in a variety of cancer cells (Fontana and Rishi; Jin et al.; Li et al.; Valli et al.)
• Decreases mRNA expression of squamous differentiation markers cytokeratin 1, involucrin, and SPR1 in the human head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cell line, UMSCC22B (Sun et al.).