beta-l-Dioxolane-cytidine (l-OddC, BCH-4556, Troxacitabine) is a novel unnatural stereochemical nucleoside analog that is under phase II clinical study for cancer treatment. This nucleoside analog could be phosphorylated and subsequently incorporated into the 3' terminus of DNA. The cytotoxicity of l-OddC was correlated with the amount of l-OddCMP in DNA, which depends on the incorporation by D...

The title compound, C8H12O6, was synthesized by de-acetyl-ation of 6-acetyl-1,2,3,4-di-O-methyl-ene-α-d-galactose with sodium methoxide. The central part of the mol-ecule consists of a six-membered C5O pyran-ose ring with a twist-boat conformation. Both fused dioxolane rings adopt an envelope conformation with C and O atoms as the flap. In the crystal, O-H⋯O and C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds are present...

In the title compound, C9H16O4, the five-membered dioxolane ring adopts a twist conformation; two adjacent C atoms deviate alternately from the mean plane of other atoms by -0.297 (4) and 0.288 (4) Å. The spiro-fused cyclo-hexane ring shows a chair form. The hy-droxy group substituted in an axial position makes an intra-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bond with one of the O atoms in the cyclic ether, ...

PURPOSE To develop and validate a population pharmacokinetic model for troxacitabine, a novel l-nucleoside analogue, administered by short infusion; to characterize clinical covariates that influence pharmacokinetic variability; and to design a dosage rate for continuous infusion administration to achieve low micromolar concentrations, which may be more efficacious than shorter infusions. EXP...

DNA polymerase θ (Polθ) is a unique A-family polymerase that is essential for alternative end-joining (alt-EJ) of double-strand breaks (DSBs) and performs translesion synthesis. Because Polθ is highly expressed in cancer cells, confers resistance to ionizing radiation and chemotherapy agents, and promotes the survival of homologous recombination (HR) deficient cells, it represents a promising n...

Amdoxovir [( )-D-2,6-diaminopurine dioxolane (DAPD)] is a nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication. DAPD is deaminated by adenosine deaminase to the guanosine analogue dioxolane guanosine (DXG), which is subsequently phosphorylated to the corresponding 5 triphosphate (DXG-TP). DXG-TP competes with the natural substrate dGTP f...