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Nature Cell Biology 7, 909–915 (1 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/ncb1291

Clusterin inhibits apoptosis by interacting with activated Bax

Honglai Zhang , Jin Koo Kim , Chris A. Edwards , Zhaohui Xu , Russell Taichman & Cun-Yu Wang

Clusterin is an enigmatic glycoprotein that is overexpressed in several human cancers such as prostate and breast cancers, and squamous cell carcinoma. Because the suppression of clusterin expression renders human cancer cells sensitive to chemotherapeutic drug-mediated apoptosis, it is currently an antisense target in clinical trials for prostate cancer.