Posted by Umar on March 15, 2011 ·
The protein Cop1 has –for a long time – been seen as an attractive drug target for cancer. But Leuven – Jean-Christophe Marine (VIB, K.U.Leuven) strongly argues against the use of Cop1-inhibitory drugs. Jean-Christophe Marine found out that Cop1 acts as a tumor suppressor, and thus inhibits tumor formation. His new data will have direct implications for the development of cancer drug [...]