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NATURE REVIEWS CANCER
Volume 2, Issue 6, Pages 420-430Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrc821
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Cancer cells often develop resistance to chemotherapy or irradiation through mutations in the p53 tumour-suppressor gene, which prevent apoptosis induction in response to cellular damage. Death receptors - members of the tumour-necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) superfamily - signal apoptosis independently of p53. Decoy receptors, by contrast, are a non-signalling subset of the TNFR superfamily that attenuate death-receptor function. Agents that are designed to activate death receptors (or block decoy receptors) might therefore be used to kill tumour cells that are resistant to conventional cancer therapies.
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