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Targetted destruction of PC3 mitochondria by ETYA: a 'Trojan horse' membrane-suicide molecule
1Department of Medicine, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL 60612.
Medical Hypotheses
|June 1, 1991
Abstract:
The reported incorporation of ETYA in place of arachidonic acid, itself enriched in mitochondria, and the autooxidation of alkyne groups, as indicated by spontaneous chemiluminescence, encompasses several features appropriate for an organelle-specific 'suicide' molecule. In point of fact, ETYA selectively destroys PC3 mitochondria.

