id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt sj139022736 Matthew David Lynx An Investigation into 3'-Azido-3'-Deoxythymidine Toxicity: Inhibtion of Thymidine Phosphorylation 2008 .txt text/plain 324 16 50 From this work, an alternative mechanism for AZT toxicity was proposed, wherein AZT's inhibition of thymidine phosphorylation leads to a depletion of the TTP pool, which causes mitochondrial DNA depletion. The toxicity of AZT is hypothesized to be due to AZT-5'-triphosphate (AZT-TP) inhibition of the mitochondrial DNA polymerase γ, leading to mitochondrial DNA depletion. cache/sj139022736.txt txt/sj139022736.txt