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Effects of the tumor inhibitory triterpenoid avicin G on cell integrity, cytokinesis, and protein ubiquitination in fission yeast.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Sept 2005
Gutterman Jordan U, Lai Hong T, Yang Peirong, Haridas Valsala, Gaikwad Amos, Marcus Stevan
Abstract excerpt
Avicins comprise a class of triterpenoid compounds that exhibit tumor inhibitory activity. Here we show that avicin G is inhibitory to growth of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. S. pombe cells treated with a lethal concentration of avicin G (20 microM) exhibited a shrunken morphology, indicating that avicin G adversely affects cell integrity. Cells treated with a sublethal concentration of avicin G...
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