dGTP starvation in Escherichia coli provides new insights into the thymineless-death phenomenon.

Starvation of cells for the DNA building block dTTP is strikingly lethal (thymineless death, TLD), and this effect is observed in all organisms. The phenomenon, discovered some 60 years ago, is widely used to kill cells in anticancer therapies, but many questions regarding the precise underlying mec...

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Main Authors: Mark Itsko, Roel M Schaaper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-05-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004310
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