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Testing cancer inhibitors at scale

A scalable and fast method for profiling single-molecule protein–protein interactions predicts the sensitivity of cells to inhibitors of the epidermal growth factor receptor, which is typically overexpressed in cancer.

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Fig. 1: Analysis of single-molecule signalling complexes and of protein–protein interactions (PPIs) of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) using high-throughput co-immunoprecipitation assays coupled to high-resolution microscopy.

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Saraon, P., Grozavu, I. & Stagljar, I. Testing cancer inhibitors at scale. Nat Biomed Eng 2, 203–204 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-018-0226-x

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