biological activity | Clitocine is an adenosine nucleoside analog derived from mushrooms and is an effective reading through. Clitocine, an inhibitor of nonsense mutations, induces p53 protein production in cells carrying the p53 nonsense mutant allele. Clitocine can induce apoptosis of multidrug-resistant tumor cells by targeting Mcl-1. Has anti-cancer activity. |
Animal Model:
| nu/nu mice (CAOV-3p53-UAA136 xenograft tumors) |
Dosage:
| 0.3, 3 mg/kg (or 20 mg/kg once per week) |
Administration:
| S.c.; five times per week |
Result:
| CAOV-33 p53-UAA136 tumor growth was inhibited. |