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Article: Targeting stress response proteins on breast, prostate tumor cells shows promise.
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- Proteomics Weekly
- Article date:
- October 11, 2004
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2004 OCT 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Stress response proteins present on the outside of cancer cells offer a promising target for a novel drug "guidance system," say researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Their study, published in Cancer Cell, demonstrates how researchers can find protein tags that are unique to cancer cells and then tweak a drug delivery system to zero in on those tags and destroy the cells.
In this case, the strategy worked on breast and prostate cancer cell lines in animal models and in patient-derived samples in the laboratory, said the researchers, who added that they plan to test it next in human ...