Structures of human thymidylate kinase in complex with prodrugs: implications for the structure-based design of novel compounds
Ostermann, N., Segura-Pena, D., Meier, C., Veit, T., Monnerjahn, M., Konrad, M., Lavie, A.(2003) Biochemistry 42: 2568-2577
- PubMed: 12614151 
- DOI: 10.1021/bi027302t
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- PubMed Abstract: 
Nucleoside analogue prodrugs are dependent on efficient intracellular stepwise phosphorylation to their triphosphate form to become therapeutically active. In many cases it is this activation pathway that largely determines the efficacy of the drug. ...