Kidney cancer gene reveals an unexpected weakness and a new path for treatment. A common genetic mutation that helps some kidney cancers survive may also expose an unexpected weakness, one that MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers hope to transform into a new treatment strategy.
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Trechos de apoio da pauta: A common genetic mutation that helps some kidney cancers survive may also expose an unexpected weakness, one that MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers hope to transform into a new treatment strategy. In a study published in Cancer Research, Aguirre de Cubas, Ph.D., and colleagues have discovered that kidney cancer cells lacking the tumor suppressor gene SETD2 become highly dependent on a protein called BCL-xL for survival.
- Ponto de atenção: kidney.
- Ponto de atenção: cancer.
- Ponto de atenção: gene.
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