The purine path to chemotherapy

GB Elion - Bioscience Reports, 1989 - Springer
Elion and published in Les Prix Nobel 1988, printed in Sweden by Norstedts Tryckeri,
Stockholm, Sweden, 1989, republished here with the permission of the Nobel Foundation, the …

Mechanism of action and selectivity of acyclovir

GB Elion - The American journal of medicine, 1982 - Elsevier
… Clair MH, Furman PA, Lubbers GM, Elion GB: Inhibition of … Clair MH, Elion GB: Metabolism
of acyclovir in virus-infected and … Elion GEJ: The chemotherapeutic exploitation of virus-…

Selectivity of action of an antiherpetic agent, 9-(2-hydroxyethoxymethyl) guanine

GB Elion, PA Furman, JA Fyfe… - Proceedings of the …, 1977 - National Acad Sciences
… Krasny,and GB Elion, unpublished). A studywas, therefore, undertaken to determine the basis
Elion, unpublished). It was identical in all respects with the triphosphate isolated by high-…

The biochemistry and mechanism of action of acyclovir

GB Elion - Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 1983 - academic.oup.com
… ) reported here is one of five VZV strains which were examined for induction of ACV-TP
formation in WI-38 cells; substantial amounts of ACV-TP were found in each case (Biron & Elion, …

Acyclovir: discovery, mechanism of action, and selectivity

GB Elion - Journal of medical virology, 1993 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The reasons for acyclovir's activity and selectivity in cells infected with HSV or VZV may be
summarized as follows: 1. Activation by a HSV- or VZV-specified TK. 2. Greater sensitivity of …

9-(2-hydroxyethoxymethyl) guanine activity against viruses of the herpes group

HJ Schaeffer, L Beauchamp, P de Miranda, GB Elion… - nature, 1978 - nature.com
articles Page 1 Nature Vol. 272 13 April 1978 articles AS m 583 9-(2-Hydroxyethoxymethyl)guanine
activity against viruses of the herpes group HJ Schaeffer, Lilia Beauchamp, P. de Miranda & …

Antagonists of nucleic acid derivatives. VIII. Synergism in combinations of biochemically related antimetabolites.

GB Elion, S Singer, GH Hitchings - 1954 - cabidigitallibrary.org
A method is described for representing, either graphically or numerically, synergism between
bacterial antagonists. The effects of various combinations of antagonists of folie acid, …

6-Mercaptopurine: effects in mouse sarcoma 180 and in normal animals

…, FS Philips, SS Sternberg, C Chester Stock, GB Elion… - Cancer Research, 1953 - AACR
… Samples of SK 5357, con forming in chemical purity to the synthetic products described by
Elion el al. (8), were used as the monohydrate and as the anhydrous base; all doses were …

On the mechanism of inactivation of xanthine oxidase by allopurinol and other pyrazolo [3, 4-d] pyrimidines

V Massey, H Komai, G Palmer, GB Elion - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1970 - ASBMB
Allopurinol and other 6-unsubstituted pyrazolo[3,4-d]-pyrimidines have been shown to reduce
all of the oxidation-reduction reactive groups of milk xanthine oxidase. The great inhibitory …

Metabolic studies of allopurinol, an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase

GB Elion, A Kovensky, GH Hitchings, E Metz… - Biochemical …, 1966 - Elsevier
The metabolic disposition of allopurinol [4-hydroxypyrazolo(3,4-d)-pyrimidine) was determined
in mice, dogs, and human subjects. The drug is a substrate for, as well as an inhibitor of, …