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Human T-cell leukemia virus I tax protein sensitizes p53-mutant cells to DNA damage.
Cancer research - 15 Jun 2008
Mihaylova Valia T, Green Allison M, Khurgel Moshe, Semmes Oliver J, Kupfer Gary M
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Mutations in p53 are a common cause of resistance of cancers to standard chemotherapy and, thus, treatment failure. Reports have shown that Tax, a human T-cell leukemia virus type I encoded protein that has been associated with genomic instability and perturbation of transcription and cell cycle, sensitizes HeLa cells to UV treatment. The extent to which Tax can sensitize cells and the mechanism by which it...
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