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acivicin

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-009607

A modified amino acid and structural analog of glutamine. Acivicin inhibits glutamine amidotransferases in the purine and pyrimidine biosynthetic pathways, thereby inhibiting tumor growth in cell lines dependent on glutamine metabolism.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-009607
FieldOncology and biomedicine
ReferencesNational Cancer Institute Thesaurus (CC BY 4.0)
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-009607",
  "term": "acivicin",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "A modified amino acid and structural analog of glutamine. Acivicin inhibits glutamine amidotransferases in the purine and pyrimidine biosynthetic pathways, thereby inhibiting tumor growth in cell lines dependent on glutamine metabolism.",
  "references": [
    "National Cancer Institute Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/acivicin/"
}

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