Fig. 1. Metabolism of 6-thiopurine: 1) therapeutic pathway forming dTGTP, a dGTP mimic, which incorporates into DNA resulting in apoptosis, and 2) the excretion pathway allowing for the removal of 6-thiopurine and its biosynthetic metabolites.
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