Taxane
Taxanes are poisonous alkaloids produced by Yew plants. Alkaloids are made by a large variety of organisms, but taxanes are produced only by plants of the genus Taxus.
Taxanes work mainly by disrupting the function of cell microtubules. Microtubules are essential to cell division, so taxanes are essentially mitotic inhibitors. This explains why taxanes have been used to produce chemotherapy drugs.[1]
References
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