Article: HK medical study unravels mechanism of retroviral cancer

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 ...

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