Can science pinpoint the triggers of certain cancers in humans?
The researchers definitively linked the function of a protein-specific domain important in plant microbial biology to cancer triggers in humans, knowledge that scientists have avoided for decades. Team findings, published in natural Communication Biology, opens new avenues for the development of selective drug therapies to fight various types of cancer, such as cancers that start in the breast and stomach. ORNL scientists set out to experimentally prove what they first concluded with a computational study: that the plasminogen-apple-nematode, or PAN, domain is associated with cell proliferation that promotes tumor growth in humans and defense signaling during plant-microbial interactions in plant-bioenergy. plant. This association was first made when researchers were exploring the genomes of plants such as poplars and willows. Read also: Cancer drug that could potentially treat muscular dystrophy In the latest study, the ORNL team demonstrate