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Evidence for cytochrome P450-dependent covalent binding of antitumor drug ellipticine to DNA

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2000

Abstract

Ellipticine is an antitumor drug interacting with DNA by inteacalation. We demonstrate a covalent binding of this drug after its activation by CYP in vitro, which might be a new mechanism of its antitumoric action