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Cytostatin is a natural antitumor inhibitor of cell adhesion to extracellular matrix, blocking adhesion of B16 melanoma cells to laminin and collagen type IV in vitro (IC50s = 1.3 and 1.4 µg/ml, respectively) and B16 cells metastatic activity in mice.1,2 It induces apoptosis of FS3 mouse fibrosarcoma cells (IC50 = 3.1 µg/ml).3 Cytostatin potently and selectively inhibits protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A; IC50 = 29 nM against the catalytic subunit), while having no effect against PP1, PP2B, or PP5.4,5
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1. Cytostatin, a novel inhibitor of cell adhesion to components of extracellular matrix produced by Streptomyces sp. MJ654-
2. Inhibitory effect of cytostatin on spontaneous lung metastases of B16-
3. Screening for apoptosis inducers in microbial products and induction of apoptosis by cytostatin. J. Antibiot. (Tokyo) 48(10), 1138-1140 (1995).
4. Cytostatin, an inhibitor of cell adhesion to extracellular matrix, selectively inhibits protein phosphatase 2A. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1452(2), 209-217 (1999).
5. Structure-