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SUBMITTER: Nishida CR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2730118 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nishida Clinton R CR Ortiz de Montellano Paul R PR
Journal of medicinal chemistry 20080806 16
Anaerobic reduction of anticancer prodrugs is a promising route to achieve targeting and selectivity in anticancer drug design. Most reductive prodrug activations involve simple electron transfer from a flavoprotein and are not amenable to specific targeting. Here, we report that the N-oxide AQ4N is reduced by a nitric oxide synthase. This reduction involves interaction with the heme iron atom in the active site and is thus subject to specific protein constraints. ...[more]