These drugs show potency of up to 200 times that of vinblastine, another antimitotic drug used for Hodgkin lymphoma as well as other types of cancer.
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Bhattacharyya's early work during his post-doctoral studies at Jan Wolff's laboratory were on tubulin and its binding mechanism with antimitotic drugs.
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It is a potent antimitotic drug derived from peptides occurring in marine shell-less mollusc " Dolabella auricularia " called dolastatins which show potent activity in preclinical studies, both " in vitro " and " in vivo ", against a range of lymphomas, leukemia and solid tumors.