Reductive activation of mitomycin A by thiols

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作者
Paz, MM [1 ]
Tomasz, M [1 ]
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[1] CUNY Hunter Coll, Dept Chem, New York, NY 10021 USA
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10.1021/ol015517+
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O62 [有机化学];
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070303 ; 081704 ;
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[GRAPHICS] Mitomycin C is unchanged upon exposure to thiols under physiological conditions. Its more toxic variant, mitomycin A (MA), undergoes elimination of methanol to give a variety of mitosene derivatives, diagnostic of its activation to a reactive electrophile. Evidence is presented for a novel reductive mechanism, characterized by the transient addition of a thiol to the quinone of MA, followed by intramolecular electron transfer, leading to reduced quinone and oxidized thiol.
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