Dysregulated apoptosis plays a key role in the pathogenesis and progression of neoplastic disorders, allowing tumor cells to survive beyond their normal life-span, and to eventually acquire chemo-radioresistance (Laconi, Pani and Farber, 2000; Pommier, Sordet, Antony, Hayward and Kohn 2004). Thus, apoptotic pathways represent attractive therapeutic targets for restoring apoptosis sensitivity of malignant cells, or activating agonists of apoptosis. To modulate apoptotic genes and proteins, several strategies can be envisaged which target either the mitochondria-dependent or the death receptor-dependent pathways of apoptosis (Waxman and Schwartz 2003). Due to the ability of death receptor ligands to induce death in susceptible cell types, there has been considerable interest in the therapeutic potential of these cytokines as anticancer agents. Death receptor ligands of the tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα) superfamily are type II transmembrane proteins that signal to target cells upon cell-cell contact, or after protease-mediated release to the extracellular space (Ashkenazi 2002). Four members of this family—including Fas ligand (FasL), TNFα, TL1A, and tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL)—stand out because of their ability to induce cell death (Wiley, Schooley, Smolak, Din, Huang, Nicholl, Sutherland, Smith, Rauch and Smith 1995; Wajant 2003).
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Carlo-Stella, C., Lavazza, C., Carbone, A., Gianni, A.M. (2008). Anticancer Cell Therapy with TRAIL-Armed CD34+ Progenitor Cells. In: Colotta, F., Mantovani, A. (eds) Targeted Therapies in Cancer. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 610. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73898-7_8
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