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Inhibition of protein glycosylation reverses the MDR phenotype of cancer cell lines.
Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie - 1 Aug 2015
Wojtowicz Karolina, Januchowski Radosław, Nowicki Michał, Zabel Maciej
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BACKGROUND: Multidrug resistance proteins are one of the most important factors that cause chemotherapy resistance, which in turn reduces therapeutic efficacy and survival for cancer patients. Tunicamycin is one of the most well-known inhibitors of N-glycosylation and is considered a powerful adjunct that can increase the effectiveness of many drugs. Tunicamycin blocks the first step of P-gp (glycoprotein P) and...
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