Streptozotocin

CAS Number: 18883-66-4 

Molecular Formula: C8H15N3O7 

Molecular Weight: 265.22 

EINECS Number: 242-646-8

USE:

Streptozotocin is an antibiotic derived from the leuco gene streptozotocin. Although it is a nitrosourea, the properties of these drugs are greatly different due to its glucose moiety and lack of ethyl chloride. In ethyl chloride nitrosourea. It has an alkylation effect but cannot cross-link DNA and prevents precursors from binding to DNA. This drug is cell cycle non-specific, but it is most sensitive to cells in S phase.