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Recipe revealed for a plant-based anti-cancer drug

Identification of missing enzymes could boost compound’s production.
White Madagascar periwinkle flower

The Madagascar periwinkle has long been the main source of vinblastine, which is used as a chemotherapy for cancers including brain tumours. Credit: Andrew Davis/John Innes Centre

Biochemists have identified two long-sought enzymes that help a tropical plant to produce a potent cancer treatment.

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Nature 557, 143 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05106-z

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