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Quantitation of TK1 mRNA in Patients with Chronic Lymphatic Leukemia

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Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism in Man VIII

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Thymidine kinase is an enzyme in the pyrimidine salvage pathway that, with ATP as co-substrate, catalyzes the phosphorylation of deoxythymidine to deoxythymidine monophosphate (dTMP) which is subsequently converted to dTTP and utilized for DNA synthesis.

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  1. Department of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Roskilde University, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Tina Kristensen, Helle Kock Jensen & Birgitte Munch-Petersen

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  1. Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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Kristensen, T., Jensen, H.K., Munch-Petersen, B. (1995). Quantitation of TK1 mRNA in Patients with Chronic Lymphatic Leukemia. In: Sahota, A., Taylor, M.W. (eds) Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism in Man VIII. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 370. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2584-4_6

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