Title : Retrovolution: HIV-driven evolution of cellular genes and improvement of anticancer drug activation.

Pub. Date : 2012 Aug

PMID : 22927829






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1 As a proof of concept we created a library of mutants of the human deoxycytidine kinase (dCK) gene, involved in the activation of nucleoside analogues used in cancer treatment, with the aim of isolating a variant sensitizing cancer cells to the chemotherapy compound Gemcitabine, to be used in gene therapy for anti-cancer approaches or as a poorly immunogenic negative selection marker for cell transplantation approaches. Nucleosides Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II Drosophila melanogaster