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Asparagine synthetase as a causal, predictive biomarker for l -asparaginase activity in ovarian cancer cells
1 Nov 2006
Abstract excerpt
L-Asparaginase (l-ASP), a bacterial enzyme used since the 1970s to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia, selectively starves cells that cannot synthesize sufficient asparagine for their own needs. Molecular profiling of the NCI-60 cancer cell lines using five different microarray platforms showed strong negative correlations of asparagine synthetase (ASNS) expression and DNA copy number with sensitivity to l-ASP in...
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