Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Co-targeting of BAX and BCL-XL proteins broadly overcomes resistance to apoptosis in cancer

  • Andrea Lopez,
  • Denis E. Reyna,
  • Nadege Gitego,
  • Felix Kopp,
  • Hua Zhou,
  • Miguel A. Miranda-Roman,
  • Lars Ulrik Nordstrøm,
  • Swathi-Rao Narayanagari,
  • Ping Chi,
  • Eduardo Vilar,
  • Aristotelis Tsirigos,
  • Evripidis Gavathiotis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28741-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Deregulation of the BCL-2 family interactions ensures cancer resistance to apoptosis and is a major challenge to current treatments. Here the authors describe a novel therapeutic strategy to overcome two anti-apoptotic mechanisms for cancer therapy.