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Article: Telomerase promoter gene therapy jumpstarts lung cancer cell apoptosis.
- Article from:
- Cancer Gene Therapy Week
- Article date:
- September 20, 2004
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2004 SEP 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Telomerase promoter gene therapy jumpstarts lung cancer cell apoptosis.
According to recent research from South Korea, "telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein complex, the function of which is to add telomeric repeats (TTAGGG), to chromosomal ends, and it is known to play an important role in cellular immortalization. Telomerase is highly active in most tumor cells, but not in normal cells. As such, it may have possible applications in cancer gene therapy."
"Telomerase consists of two essential components, telomerase RNA template (hTR) and catalytic subunit (hTERT). hTERT is expressed only in cells and tissues ...