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Letters in Organic Chemistry

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ISSN (Print): 1570-1786
ISSN (Online): 1875-6255

Novel Anthraquinone-Carbohydrate Hybrids: The Significant Improvement of the DNA Photocleaving Activity and the Cytotoxic Selectivity

Author(s): Kazunobu Toshima, Yoko Nakajima, Yutaka Maeda and Shuichi Matsumura

Volume 1, Issue 1, 2004

Page: [31 - 33] Pages: 3

DOI: 10.2174/1570178043488581

Abstract

Novel anthraquinone-carbohydrate hybrids were designed and synthesized as artificial DNA photocleavers. They were found to show high DNA cleaving activity under irradiation with a long wavelength UV light without any additives and also exhibited selective cytotoxicity against HeLa S3 cancer cells with the photoirradiation.

Keywords: anthraquinone, carbohydrate, photoirradiation, dna cleavage, cancer cells, cytotoxicity


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