New family of proteins linked to major role in cancer

Monday, December 2, 2013 - 23:00 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have described a new family of proteins that appear to play a key role in cancer and might be targets for future cancer drugs. A major new study sets out the structure of the new family, called glutamate intramembrane proteases -- the founding member of which plays a critical role in transforming healthy cells into cancer cells.

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