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Cytotoxic activity of 2',2'-difluorodeoxycytidine, 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine and cytosine arabinoside in cells transduced with deoxycytidine kinase gene.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 24 May 2002
Beauséjour Christian M, Gagnon Jacynthe, Primeau Mélanie, Momparler Richard L
Abstract excerpt
Deoxycytidine nucleoside analogs must be first phosphorylated to become active anticancer drugs. The rate-limiting enzyme in this pathway is deoxycytidine kinase (dCK). Cells deficient in this enzyme are resistant to these analogs. To evaluate the potential of dCK to be used as suicide gene for deoxycytidine nucleoside analogs, we transduced both human A-549 lung carcinoma and murine NIH3T3 fibroblast cell lines...
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