Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Phil and Ann Sharp Scholar, Biochemistry
Professor, Biochemistry
Affiliate, Chemistry
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Yeh, I. J., Ghozayel, M. K., Bum-Erdene, K., & Meroueh, S. O. (2026). Degradation of the TEAD·YAP/TAZ Transcription Factor Complex by Heterobifunctional Small Molecules That Bind to the TEAD Allosteric Lipid Pocket. ACS chemical biology, 21(5), 1199-1210. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.6c00170

Landgraf, A. D., Brenner, R., Ghozayel, M. K., Bum-Erdene, K., Gonzalez-Gutierrez, G., & Meroueh, S. O. (2025). Small-Molecule KRAS Inhibitors by Tyrosine Covalent Bond Formation. ChemMedChem, 20(12), Article e202400624. https://doi.org/10.1002/cmdc.202400624

Yeh, I. J., Bum-Erdene, K., Ghozayel, M. K., Gonzalez-Gutierrez, G., & Meroueh, S. O. (2025). Small-Molecule Covalent Stabilization and Inhibition of the TEAD·YAP1 Transcription Factor in Cancer Cells. ACS chemical biology, 20(9), 2142-2158. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.5c00283

Brenner, R. J., Landgraf, A. D., Bum-Erdene, K., Gonzalez-Gutierrez, G., & Meroueh, S. O. (2023). Crystal Packing Reveals a Potential Autoinhibited KRAS Dimer Interface and a Strategy for Small-Molecule Inhibition of RAS Signaling. Biochemistry, 62(22), 3206-3213. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biochem.3c00378

Bum-Erdene, K., Ghozayel, M. K., Zhang, M. J., Gonzalez-Gutierrez, G., & Meroueh, S. O. (2023). Chloroacetamide fragment library screening identifies new scaffolds for covalent inhibition of the TEAD·YAP1 interaction. RSC Medicinal Chemistry, 14(9), 1803-1816. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3md00264k

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