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Generation of new TRAIL mutants DR5-A and DR5-B with improved selectivity to death receptor 5.
Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death - 1 Jun 2009
Gasparian Marine E, Chernyak Boris V, Dolgikh Dmitry A, Yagolovich Anne V, Popova Ekaterina N, Sycheva Anna M, Moshkovskii Sergey A, Kirpichnikov Mikhail P
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TRAIL (tumor necrosis factor (TNF) related apoptosis-inducing ligand) has been introduced as an extrinsic pathway inducer of apoptosis that does not have the toxicities of Fas and TNF. However, the therapeutic potential of TRAIL is limited because of many primary tumor cells are resistant to TRAIL. Despite intensive investigations, little is known in regards to the mechanisms underlying TRAIL selectivity and...
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