GPX4

Matthew J Hangauer1,2,3, Vasanthi S Viswanathan4, Matthew J Ryan4

  • 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California 94143, USA.

Nature
|November 2, 2017
PubMed
まとめ

脂質水酸化酵素GPX4 (グルタチオン過酸化酵素4) を標的にすることで,治療に抵抗するがんの持続細胞を排除できます. GPX4を阻害すると,選択的にこれらの細胞を殺し,腫瘍の再発と薬剤耐性を予防します.

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