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Characterization of a transport and detoxification pathway for the antitumour drug bleomycin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
The Biochemical journal - 15 Nov 2004
Aouida Mustapha, Leduc Anick, Wang Huijie, Ramotar Dindial
Abstract excerpt
BLM (bleomycin) is effective in combination therapy against various cancers including testicular cancer. However, several other cancers such as colon cancer are refractory to BLM treatment. The exact mechanism for this differential response of cancer cells to the drug is not known. In the present study, we created fluorescently labelled BLM-A5, which retained nearly full genotoxic potential, and used this...
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