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Sphingosine kinase regulates the sensitivity of Dictyostelium discoideum cells to the anticancer drug cisplatin.
Eukaryotic cell - 1 Jan 2005
Min Junxia, Traynor David, Stegner Andrew L, Zhang Lei, Hanigan Marie H, Alexander Hannah, Alexander Stephen
Abstract excerpt
The drug cisplatin is widely used to treat a number of tumor types. However, resistance to the drug, which remains poorly understood, limits its usefulness. Previous work using Dictyostelium discoideum as a model for studying drug resistance showed that mutants lacking sphingosine-1-phosphate (S-1-P) lyase, the enzyme that degrades S-1-P, had increased resistance to cisplatin, whereas mutants overexpressing the...
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