„Gene therapy“: from bench to bedside?
B Spänkuch · Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde · 2009 · Heft 02
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Zusammenfassung
Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) constitutes a potential drug target which attracts increasing attention in the field of cancer therapy, because this serine/threonine kinase is a key regulator for the mitotic progression of mammalian cells and a spindle checkpoint modulator (1). Plk1 shows elevated activity in all cancer cells analyzed to date (2, 3) and it has prognostic value for predicting outcomes in patients with several cancers (4). The importance of Plk1 as a measure for the aggressiveness of a tumor results from its important role for the mitotic checkpoints of cancer cells (5–8). Deletion or mutations in Plk-c…