Rice University: New Enzyme Could Aid Anticancer Drug Development
June 28, 2023
June 28, 2023
HOUSTON, Texas, June 28 (TNSjou) -- Rice University issued the following news release:
Many of the drugs we use to treat cancer and infectious disease are - or derive from - natural products, but it's difficult to know exactly how nature assembles them.
Retracing nature's steps, Rice University chemical engineer Xue Gao and her team mapped out the full series of enzyme-powered reactions a marine fungus uses to produce 21R-citrinadin A, a complex molecule with anticancer . . .
Many of the drugs we use to treat cancer and infectious disease are - or derive from - natural products, but it's difficult to know exactly how nature assembles them.
Retracing nature's steps, Rice University chemical engineer Xue Gao and her team mapped out the full series of enzyme-powered reactions a marine fungus uses to produce 21R-citrinadin A, a complex molecule with anticancer . . .