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Journal of inorganic biochemistry • 2004 | View Paper
“At the 0.05 level for statistical significance, iron induced concentration-dependent DNA degradation, and this effect was enhanced by ascorbate and bleomycin.”
Biomedical and environmental sciences : BES • 1991 | View Paper
“The results implicate a role for iron in mediating the in vivo action of bleomycin and also reveal a potentially toxic effect, membrane peroxidation, separate from DNA damage.”
Toxicology and applied pharmacology • 1988 | View Paper
“The interaction of iron with bleomycin results in the activation of bleomycin to a reactive intermediate which can alter DNA or undergo self-inactivation.”
“This report demonstrates that the interaction of ferrous iron with bleomycin results in chemiluminescence, that this response is iron-specific and that the presence of DNA prevents the generation of chemiluminescence.”
“DNA strand scission by bleomycin in the presence of Cu and Fe was further characterized.”
“Remarkably, it was found that the extent of DNA degradation obtained with bleomycin in the presence of Fe and Cu was greater than that obtained with either metal ion alone.”