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SUBMITTER: Wijnholds J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC16570 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wijnholds J J Mol C A CA van Deemter L L de Haas M M Scheffer G L GL Baas F F Beijnen J H JH Scheper R J RJ Hatse S S De Clercq E E Balzarini J J Borst P P
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20000601 13
Two prominent members of the ATP-binding cassette superfamily of transmembrane proteins, multidrug resistance 1 (MDR1) P-glycoprotein and multidrug resistance protein 1 (MRP1), can mediate the cellular extrusion of xenobiotics and (anticancer) drugs from normal and tumor cells. The MRP subfamily consists of at least six members, and here we report the functional characterization of human MRP5. We found resistance against the thiopurine anticancer drugs, 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) and thioguanine, a ...[more]