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Putative mediator of growth arrest and death identified in malignant glioma cells

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, June 8th, 2006

Recent research from Germany has reported on the identification of a putative mediator of growth arrest and death in malignant glioma cells.

"Chimeric tumor suppressor-1 (CTS-1) is based on the sequence of p53 and was designed as a therapeutic tool resisting various mechanisms of p53 inactivation. We previously reported that an adenovirus expressing CTS-1 (Ad-CTS-1) has superior cell death-inducing activity in glioma cells compared with wild-type p53.

"Here, we used cDNA microarrays to detect changes in gene expression preferentially induced by Ad-CTS-1," wrote U. Naumann and colleagues, University of Tubingen.

"The putative Ser...

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