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During the past 10 years polyamines and modified nucleosides have both been suggested as useful tumor markers. Since the polyamine-synthetic pathway and nucleic acid methylation share the common cosubstrate S-adenosylmethionine, it is likely that the two metabolic routes have common regulatory features.
Work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SFB 118 and the W. Sander Stiftung. The authors thank Mrs. L. Mutschler, Mrs. Stockhausen, and Mrs. U. Christel for their excellent technical assistance
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Mach, M., Schneider, U., Kersten, W. (1983). Excretion of Polyamines by Children with Leukemia During Chemotherapy. In: Nass, G. (eds) Modified Nucleosides and Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research/Fortschritte der Krebsforschung/Progrès dans les recherches sur Ie cancer, vol 84. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81947-6_31
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