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Nature Chemical Biology 1, 8 - 9 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nchembio0605-8

Ending the prolonged life of cancer cells

Gerhard Wagner1

  1. The author is in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. e-mail: wagner@hms.harvard.edu


The fate of cells depends on a delicate balance of pro- and anti-apoptotic proteins. Small-molecule inhibitors of anti-apoptotic protein-protein interactions promote apoptosis in cancer cells.

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