Synonyms: 2'-deoxycoformycin | deoxycoformycin | Nipent®
pentostatin is an approved drug (FDA (1991))
Compound class:
Synthetic organic
Comment: Pentostatin is a purine (adenosine) analogue, antimetabolite chemotherapeutic anticancer drug.
Ligand Activity Visualisation ChartsThese are box plot that provide a unique visualisation, summarising all the activity data for a ligand taken from ChEMBL and GtoPdb across multiple targets and species. Click on a plot to see the median, interquartile range, low and high data points. A value of zero indicates that no data are available. A separate chart is created for each target, and where possible the algorithm tries to merge ChEMBL and GtoPdb targets by matching them on name and UniProt accession, for each available species. However, please note that inconsistency in naming of targets may lead to data for the same target being reported across multiple charts. ✖ |
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Summary of Clinical Use |
Anti-cancer chemotherapeutic used to treat hairy-cell leukemia and many other lymphoproliferative malignancies. |
Mechanism Of Action and Pharmacodynamic Effects |
Pentostatin is an adenosine mimetic which inhibits adenosine deaminase activity and thereby reducing cells' ability to process DNA. |
External links |
For extended ADME data see the following: Electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC) Drugs.com |