Catabolism of pyrimidines in yeast: a tool to understand degradation of anticancer drugs.
Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids
; 25(9-11): 991-6, 2006.
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| ID: mdl-17065052
The pyrimidine catabolic pathway is of crucial importance in cancer patients because it is involved in degradation of several chemotherapeutic drugs, such as 5-fluorouracil; it also is important in plants, unicellular eukaryotes, and bacteria for the degradation of pyrimidine-based biocides/antibiotics. During the last decade we have developed a yeast species, Saccharomyces kluyveri, as a model and tool to study the genes and enzymes of the pyrimidine catabolic pathway. In this report, we studied degradation of uracil and its putative degradation products in 38 yeasts and showed that this pathway was present in the ancient yeasts but was lost approximately 100 million years ago in the S. cerevisiae lineage.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Pirimidinas
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Ensayos de Selección de Medicamentos Antitumorales
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Antineoplásicos
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids
Asunto de la revista:
BIOQUIMICA
Año:
2006
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Suecia
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos