Shiga toxin receptor Gb3Cer/CD77: tumor-association and promising therapeutic target in pancreas and colon cancer.

BACKGROUND: Despite progress in adjuvant chemotherapy in the recent decades, pancreatic and colon cancers remain common causes of death worldwide. Bacterial toxins, which specifically bind to cell surface-exposed glycosphingolipids, are a potential novel therapy. We determined the expression of glob...

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Main Authors: Ute Distler, Jamal Souady, Marcel Hülsewig, Irena Drmić-Hofman, Jörg Haier, Alexander W Friedrich, Helge Karch, Norbert Senninger, Klaus Dreisewerd, Stefan Berkenkamp, M Alexander Schmidt, Jasna Peter-Katalinić, Johannes Müthing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2730034?pdf=render