A new mechanism by which acute myeloid leukaemia patients become resistant to Ara-C and a newer treatment, ribavirin, is uncovered; these drugs can be glucuronidated and thereby inactivated by members of the UDP glucuronosyltransferase family of enzymes activated through GLI1 signalling.
- Hiba Ahmad Zahreddine
- Biljana Culjkovic-Kraljacic
- Katherine L. B. Borden