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Distribution of mutations in human thymidylate synthase yielding resistance to 5-fluorodeoxyuridine.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 27 Sept 2002
Kawate Hisaya, Landis Daniel M, Loeb Lawrence A
Abstract excerpt
Thymidylate synthase (TS) catalyzes methylation of dUMP to dTMP and is the target of cancer chemotherapeutic agents (e.g. 5-fluorouracil). Here, we used error-prone PCR to mutagenize the full-length human TS cDNA and then selected mutants resistant to 5-fluorodeoxyuridine in a bacterial complementation system. We found that resistant mutants contained 1-5 amino acid substitutions and that these substitutions were...
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