In vitro antitumor activities of 13 saframycins, including the potent antitumor component, saframycin A, were determined with the highly sensitive established cell line of L1210 mouse leukemia to investigate structure-activity relationships. Saframycins which lack the alpha-cyanoamine group or the alpha-carbinolamine group exhibited much lower cytotoxic activity than saframycin A. The modificat...

Studies of human follitropin (hFSH) structure-activity relationships from the author' s laboratory are reviewed. These include mutagenesis studies that complemented the determination of the three dimensIonal structure of hFSH. Despite a large extracellular domain of the FSH receptor and the complexity and size of both the receptor and the hFSH molecule, only a handful of hFSH amino acids are re...

The last 50 years has seen an exponential rise in the published reports about estrogen action. The model to describe the early events in the mechanism of action of estrogens via the estrogen receptor is updated in this paper to incorporate some of the recent data on the subcellular localization of the receptor. New evidence suggests that the receptor is a nuclear protein, so it appears that est...