Etoposide (33419-42-0) is a chemotherapeutic agent that forms a ternary complex with DNA and topoisomerase II, preventing re-ligation of DNA strands causing DNA cleavage. Etoposide blocks the cell cycle in S-phase and G2-phase.
References/Citations:
1) Hande (1998) Etoposide: four decades of development of a topoisomerase II inhibitor; Eur. J. Cancer 34 1514
2) Smith et.al. (1994) Etoposide-induced cell cycle delay and arrest-dependent modulation of DNA topoisomerase II in small-cell lung cancer cells; Br. J. Cancer. 70 914
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