clitocine

Definition

ChEBI: Clitocine is a N-glycosyl compound.

Biological Activity

Clitocine, an adenosine nucleoside analog derived from mushrooms, is a potent readthrough. As an inhibitor of nonsense mutations, it can induce the production of p53 protein in cells carrying p53 nonsense mutant alleles. It induces apoptosis in multidrug-resistant tumor cells by targeting Mcl-1. Has anticancer activity.

in vitro