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A Saccharomyces cerevisiae phleomycin-sensitive mutant, ph140, is defective in the RAD6 DNA repair gene.
Canadian journal of microbiology - 1 Dec 1996
He C H, Masson J Y, Ramotar D
Abstract excerpt
The antibiotic bleomycin is used as an anticancer agent for treating a variety of tumours. The antitumour effect of bleomycin is related to its ability to produce lesions such as apurinic/apyrimidinic sites and single- and double-strand breaks in the cellular DNA. Phleomycin is a structurally related form of bleomycin, but it is not used as an anticancer agent. While phleomycin can also damage DNA, neither the...
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