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Fluoropyrimidine catabolism

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Book cover Concepts, Mechanisms, and New Targets for Chemotherapy

Part of the book series: Cancer Treatment and Research ((CTAR,volume 78))

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Antimetabolites are a class of chemotherapeutic agents that have a chemical structure similar to physiologic intermediates and can function as substrates for important enzymatic reactions required in vital cell biologic processes, e.g., synthesis of DNA and RNA. Several reviews on the metabolism of antimetabolite drugs have recently been published, providing a general background on these drugs [1–5]. The pyrimidine antimetabolite drugs consist of base or nucleoside analogues of the naturally occurring pyrimidines, i.e., uracil, thymine, and cytosine. They have a strong structural similarity to these endogenous nucleic acid precursors, with structural differences including substitutions at one of the carbons in the pyrimidine ring or one of the hydrogens attached to the ring of the pyrimidine or sugar (ribose or deoxyribose).

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Diasio, R.B., Lu, Z., Zhang, R., Shahinian, H.S. (1995). Fluoropyrimidine catabolism. In: Muggia, F.M. (eds) Concepts, Mechanisms, and New Targets for Chemotherapy. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 78. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2007-8_4

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