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Killing of sarcoma cells by proapoptotic Bcl-X(S): role of the BH3 domain and regulation by Bcl-X(L).
Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 2000
Mitra R S, Benedict M A, Qian D, Foreman K E, Ekhterae D, Nickoloff B J, Nuñez G
Abstract excerpt
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is the most common tumor affecting AIDS patients with over 20% of these patients afflicted by this disease. Previous studies have demonstrated that KS tumor cells predominantly express the prosurvival protein Bcl-X(L) compared with Bcl-2. In the current study, we have used an adenoviral vector that expresses Bcl-X(S), a functional inhibitor of Bcl-X(L), to study the significance of Bcl-X(L)...
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