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Article: HK medical study unravels mechanism of retroviral cancer
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 20, 2006
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HK medical study unravels mechanism of retroviral cancer
HONG KONG, June 20 (Xinhua) -- The University of Hong Kong
announced Tuesday a study result about the unravel of a new mechanism
for the development of a virus-led leukemia, which provides future
direction for exploiting new anti-cancer therapeutic agents.
The research team has identified and characterized for the first
time a novel protein in human cells called TAX1BP2 functions to
prevent the cell centrosome from duplicating more than once when a
cell divides.
It further demonstrated that when HTLV-1 virus, which can cause
adult T-cell leukemia (ATL), binds and inhibits protein TAX1BP2, can
lead to ...