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JamesIgnatius27 t1_jd54p2c wrote

Reply to comment by IOVERCALLHISTIOCYTES in Promising pill completely eliminates cancer in 18 leukaemia patients by mancinedinburgh

I appreciate your knowledge on the subject!

I have a biology PhD but I'm not a cancer specialist by any means. I just try to read the actual science whenever an article like this gets posted to reddit to give a more realistic assessment of the findings.

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IOVERCALLHISTIOCYTES t1_jd58ulq wrote

Reddits lucky to have someone like you summarize this stuff!

You’d get a kick out of KMT2a. The protein is..3700? residues, has a heap of domains, and gets cleaved into two, something like a 320kD and 180kD. The pull-down assays bring down a ton of things where many of the proteins correspond to mutations seen in cancer. Crystal structure was apparently a challenge.

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