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Alpha-difluoromethylornithine resistance in Leishmania donovani is associated with increased ornithine decarboxylase activity.
Molecular and biochemical parasitology - 1 Feb 1990
Coons T, Hanson S, Bitonti A J, McCann P P, Ullman B
Abstract excerpt
The promastigote form of Leishmania donovani is sensitive to growth inhibition by DL-alpha-difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), an inhibitor of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), the first enzyme of the polyamine biosynthetic pathway, with an EC50 value of approximately 30 microM. Exposure of a wild type (DI700) cell population to gradually increasing concentrations of DFMO resulted in the selection of a strain of...
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