Article
Self-immolative nitrogen mustard prodrugs for suicide gene therapy.
Journal of medicinal chemistry - 17 Dec 1998
Niculescu-Duvaz D, Niculescu-Duvaz I, Friedlos F, Martin J, Spooner R, Davies L, Marais R, Springer C J
Abstract excerpt
Four new potential self-immolative prodrugs derived from phenol and aniline nitrogen mustards, four model compounds derived from their corresponding fluoroethyl analogues and two new self-immolative linkers were designed and synthesized for use in the suicide gene therapy termed GDEPT (gene-direc...
Topics
- Animals
- Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating
- Colorectal Neoplasms
- Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
- Genetic Therapy
- Inhibitory Concentration 50
- Mechlorethamine
- Mice
- Mutation
- Prodrugs
- Transfection
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- gamma-Glutamyl Hydrolase
