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Retinoid X receptor (RXR)

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The retinoid X receptor is a switch inside cells that vitamin A-like molecules turn on to change which genes are active; bexarotene uses it to make lymphoma cells in the skin mature and die. This dossier gathers the 1 product (1 approved), 0 trials, 0 pathways and 0 resistance routes in the corpus that involve it, with external identifiers so it can be joined to UniProt, ChEMBL, Open Targets and the rest of biology.

Biology

Ligand binding recruits co-activators and drives differentiation and apoptosis genes in malignant T cells; RXR also modulates PPAR-gamma-dependent lipid metabolism.

Where it is found
  • Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (bexarotene)
Class: nuclear receptor · Gene: RXRA, RXRB, RXRG · Facts checked 2026-09-10 · Target page

Elsewhere: identifiers and databases

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Resistance routes that involve this target

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Pathways where it is a node

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Companion diagnostics and assays

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Ideas and companies

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Companies with products against it · 1

Key papers and the live literature

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Query for this target: (TITLE:"Retinoid X receptor" OR ABSTRACT:"Retinoid X receptor" OR TITLE:"RXR" OR ABSTRACT:"RXR" OR TITLE:"RXRA" OR ABSTRACT:"RXRA" OR TITLE:"RXRB" OR ABSTRACT:"RXRB" OR TITLE:"RXRG" OR ABSTRACT:"RXRG") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about Retinoid X receptor (RXR), not a curated reading list.

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The dossier as machine-readable JSON: identifiers from HGNC, Ensembl, UniProt and ChEMBL, products with status, trials, pathways, hotspots, open questions and assays. The full entity record is in the open API at /api/v1/entities/rxr.json. Licence CC BY-NC 4.0.