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SUBMITTER: Ardini M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9506092 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ardini Matteo M Vago Riccardo R Fabbrini Maria Serena MS Ippoliti Rodolfo R
Toxins 20220823 9
Suicide gene therapy is a relatively novel form of cancer therapy in which a gene coding for enzymes or protein toxins is delivered through targeting systems such as vesicles, nanoparticles, peptide or lipidic co-adjuvants. The use of toxin genes is particularly interesting since their catalytic activity can induce cell death, damaging in most cases the translation machinery (ribosomes or protein factors involved in protein synthesis) of quiescent or proliferating cells. Thus, toxin gene deliver ...[more]