Title : Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors: sulfonamides as antitumor agents?

Pub. Date : 2001 Mar

PMID : 11310605






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1 The mechanism of antitumor action with the new sulfonamides reported here remains obscure, but may involve inhibition of CA isozymes which predominate in tumor cell membranes (CA IX and CA XII), perhaps causing acidification of the intercellular milieu, or inhibition of intracellular isozymes which provide bicarbonate for the synthesis of nucleotides and other essential cell components (CA II and CA V). Sulfonamides carbonic anhydrase 5A Homo sapiens