Protein 'map' could lead to potent new cancer drugs

Saturday, September 27, 2014 - 05:31 in Health & Medicine

Chemists have gained fresh insights into how a disease-causing enzyme makes changes to proteins and how it can be stopped. The scientists hope their findings will help them to design drugs that could target the enzyme, known as N-myristoyltransferase (NMT), and potentially lead to new treatments for cancer and inflammatory conditions.

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