Publications by authors named "Umar Khalid Khan"

Article Synopsis
  • A lot of prostate cancer patients have high levels of a protein called SPINK1, which can make the cancer more aggressive and harder to treat.
  • Researchers found that a protein called KIT is active in many of these SPINK1-positive prostate cancer cases and helps the cancer grow.
  • By blocking the KIT protein, the growth of tumors and their spread to other parts of the body can be reduced, offering new treatment options for patients with advanced prostate cancer.
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Transcription factors (TFs) represent the most commonly deregulated DNA-binding class of proteins associated with multiple human cancers. They can act as transcriptional activators or repressors that rewire the cistrome, resulting in cellular reprogramming during cancer progression. Deregulation of TFs is associated with the onset and maintenance of various cancer types including prostate cancer.

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Neurodegenerative diseases are a group of debilitating maladies involving protein aggregation. To this day, all advances in neurodegenerative disease therapeutics have helped symptomatically but have not prevented the root cause of the disease, i.e.

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