Structure and function of human α-lactalbumin made lethal to tumor cells (HAMLET)-type complexes

FEBS Journal

Volumn 277, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 4614-4625

  Mossberg, Ann Kristin ^a   Hun Mok, Kenneth ^a,b   Morozova Roche, Ludmilla A ^c   Svanborg, Catharina ^a,d  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

lactalbumin; Cancer; Cell death; ELOA; HAMLET; Lysozyme; Oleate; Oleic acid; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LACTALBUMIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; EQUINE LYSOZYME WITH OLEIC ACID; FATTY ACID; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; HUMAN ALPHA LACTALBUMIN MADE LETHAL TO TUMOR CELLS; OLEIC ACID; PLACEBO; PROTEASOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER CELL DESTRUCTION; CHEMICAL BINDING; DRUG CONFORMATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; ION EXCHANGE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID MEMBRANE; PHOSPHOLIPID VESICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEINASE INHIBITION; REVIEW; SKIN PAPILLOMA; STOICHIOMETRY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; CHROMATIN; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; FATTY ACIDS; HUMANS; LACTALBUMIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MURAMIDASE; NEOPLASMS; OLEIC ACIDS; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 78049232312     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07890.x     Document Type: Review

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