| Literature DB >> 22245861 |
Lara Martínez-Fernández1, Leticia González, Inés Corral.
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The deactivation mechanism of the cytotoxic 6-thioguanine, the 6-sulfur-substituted analogue of the canonical DNA base, is unveiled by ab initio calculations. Oxygen-by-sulfur substitution leads to efficient population of triplet states-the first step for generating singlet oxygen-which is responsible for its cytotoxicity. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2012Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22245861 DOI: 10.1039/c2cc15775f
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Chem Commun (Camb) ISSN: 1359-7345 Impact factor: 6.222