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1Laboratory of Metabolism, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. kyunglee@mail.nih.gov
Abstract:
Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) appears to be an attractive target for anticancer therapy. In this issue of Chemistry & Biology, Reindl et al. (2008) describe the identification of a small molecule called Poloxin that appears to interfere with the function of the polo-box domain (PBD) of Plk1.
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