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Study of the impact of the T877A mutation on ligand-induced helix-12 positioning of the androgen receptor resulted in design and synthesis of novel antiandrogens.
Proteins - 15 Feb 2010
Zhou Jinming, Liu Bing, Geng Guoyan, Wu Jian Hui
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Antiandrogen flutamide, an antagonist of the wild-type androgen receptor (AR), is used in the clinics for treating metastatic prostate cancer. However, the T877A mutated AR is paradoxically activated by hydroxyflutamide, an active form of flutamide. Despite of crystallographic studies, how the T8...
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