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Humanizing mouse folate metabolism: conversion of the dual-promoter mouse folylpolyglutamate synthetase gene to the human single-promoter structure.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - 1 May 2014
Yang Chen, Xie Lin-Ying, Windle Jolene J, Taylor Shirley M, Moran Richard G
Abstract excerpt
The mouse is extensively used to model human folate metabolism and therapeutic outcomes with antifolates. However, the folylpoly-γ-glutamate synthetase (fpgs) gene, whose product determines folate/antifolate intracellular retention and antifolate antitumor activity, displays a pronounced species difference. The human gene uses only a single promoter, whereas the mouse uses two: P2, akin to the human promoter, at...
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