Further reading

Georg, G. I., T. T. Chen, I. Ojima, and D. M. Vyas, eds., Taxane Anticancer Agents: Basic Science and Current Status Vol. 583, ACS Symposium Series. Edited by Comstock, M. J., Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 1995.

Goodman, Jordan and Vivien Walsh, ^{The
Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer
Drug}, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Liehr, Joachim, Beppino Giovanella, and Claire Verschraegen, eds., The Camptothecins: Unfolding Their Anticancer Potential, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 922, New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 2000.

Research Triangle Institute, Progress Report No. 21, June 26, 1967.

Schiff, Peter, Janet Fant, and Susan Horwitz, “Promotion of Microtubule Assembly in vitro by Taxol,” Nature, 277 (1979), 665-667.

Schiff, Peter and Susan Horwitz, “Taxol Stabilizes Microtubules in Mouse Fibroblast Cells,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77 (March 1980), 1561-1565.

Stephenson, Frank, “A Tale of Taxol," Florida State University Research in Review, 12:3, (Fall 2002), 12-37.

Suffness, Matthew, ed., Taxol: Science and Applications, Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1995.

Wall, Monroe E. and M. C. Wani, “Camptothecin and Taxol: Discovery to Clinic,” Cancer Research, 55, 1995, 753-760.

Wall, Monroe E. and M. C. Wani, “Camptothecin: Discovery to Clinic, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 803, December 13, 1996, 1-12.

Wall, Monroe E., M. C. Wani, and Harold Taylor, “Isolation and Chemical Characterization of Antitumor Agents from Plants,” Cancer Treatment Reports, 60 (1976), 1011-1030.

Wall, Monroe E., M. C. Wani, C. E. Cook, K. H. Palmer, A. T. McPhail, and G. A. Sim, “Plant antitumor agents. 1. The isolation and structure of camptothecin, a novel alkaloidal leukemia and tumor inhibitor from Camptotheca acuminata,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 88 (1966), 3888-3890.

Wani, M. C., H. L. Taylor, Monroe E. Wall, P. Coggon, and A. T. McPhail, “Plant Antitumor Agents. VI. The Isolation and Structure of Taxol, a Novel Antileukemic and Antitumor Agent from Taxus brevifolia,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 93 (1971), 2325-2327.

Acknowledgments

Photo credits: Research Triangle Institute

Written by Judah Ginsberg
The author wishes to thank Dr. Mansukh Wani of the Research Triangle Institute for sharing his memories of working with Dr. Monroe Wall on natural products research. In addition, thanks to Dr. Wani and Dr. Nicholas Oberlies, also of RTI, for generously granting their time to edit these pages.

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