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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-10-6
pubmed:abstractText
The development of new and effective ontiprotozool drugs has been difficult because of the close metabolic relationship between protozoa and mammalian cells. In this article, Michael Riscoe, Al Ferro and john Fitchen present their hypothesis for chemotherapeutic exploitation of methylthioribose (MTR) kinase, an enzyme critical to methionine salvage in certain protozoa. They propose that analogues of MTR if properly designed, would be converted to toxic products in organisms that contain MTR kinase but not in mammalian cells, which lack this enzyme.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0169-4758
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
5
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
330-3
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Methionine recycling as a target for antiprotozoal drug development.
pubmed:affiliation
M. Riscoe and J. Fitchen are at the Medical Research Service, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Portland, OR 97207, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article