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Modes of actions of two types of anti-neoplastic drugs, dacarbazine and ACNU, to induce apoptosis.
Carcinogenesis - 1 Dec 2007
Sanada Masayuki, Hidaka Masumi, Takagi Yasumitsu, Takano Tomoko Y, Nakatsu Yoshimichi, Tsuzuki Teruhisa, Sekiguchi Mutsuo
Abstract excerpt
O(6)-Methylguanine and O(6)-chloroethylguanine, which are the primary cytotoxic DNA lesions produced by 5-(3,3-dimethyl-1-triazeno)imidazole-4-carboxamide (dacarbazine) and 1-(4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinyl)methyl-3-(2-chloroethyl)-3-nitrosourea (ACNU), respectively, can be repaired by O(6)-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), coded by the MGMT gene. However, the two types of drugs exhibit different...
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