It is applied as an antiparasitic agent and antineoplastic agent. It acts as a protein synthesis inhibitor (blocks translation), potent activator of stress-activated protein kinases (JNK/SAPK) and p38 MAP kinase. It also scts as a potent signaling agonist to selectively elicit homologous desensitization of immediate early gene induction (c-fos, fosB, c-jun, junB and junD). Activates mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases (JNK/SAPK and p38/RK).

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