Apoptosis, Up the Ante

Publication date: 9 October 2017
Source:Cancer Cell, Volume 32, Issue 4
Author(s): Palaniraja Thandapani, Iannis Aifantis
The clinical success of the BH3-mimetic venetoclax has generated increasing interest to target BCL2 family proteins in oncology. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Reyna and colleagues demonstrate the potential of a pharmacological activator of the pro-apoptotic protein BAX to suppress acute myeloid leukemia both alone and together with venetoclax.

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The clinical success of the BH3-mimetic venetoclax has generated increasing interest to target BCL2 family proteins in oncology. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Reyna and colleagues demonstrate the potential of a pharmacological activator of the pro-apoptotic protein BAX to suppress acute myeloid leukemia both alone and together with venetoclax.


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