Finding their groove; bifunctional molecules arrest growth of cancer cells.
In this issue, Dickinson et al. describe an exciting advance in the search for inhibitors of transcription that function well in cells . The authors screen for small molecules that selectively damage DNA and identify a histone gene as a potential new target for cancer therapeutic development.
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Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, USA.
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