alphacyberrangerSugar compound from deep-sea bacteria revealed to cause cancer cells to explosively self destruct through pyroptosis
LumisalI imagine this will be similar to chemotherapy.
As in, it technically affects all your cells, it just happens to affect cancer cells a lot more. In this case, because they try to absorb extra sugars in many cases.
As a chemist that makes me wonder why they dont wrap the platinum in sugar complexes
one of my guesses would be that platinum catalysis is expensive as usual, but recovery of the catalyst from living being would be much worse than equivalent lab seetup, so the cost would not justify.
I mean its still in use anyways, so might aswell choose the most direct and selective method if that is via glycocojugates.