SAMHD1 is a barrier to antimetabolite-based cancer therapies

The outcome of acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) therapy depends on the propensity of leukemic blasts to accumulate ara-CTP, the active triphosphate of cytarabine (ara-C). We identified sterile α motif and HD domain-containing protein 1 (SAMHD1) as an ara-CTPase that protects cancer cells from cytara...

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Main Authors: Sean G. Rudd, Torsten Schaller, Nikolas Herold
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-03-01
Series:Molecular & Cellular Oncology
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23723556.2017.1287554