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The T790M mutation could also affect the kinase activity or alter the substrate specificity of mutant EGFRs, such that a proliferative advantage would be conferred upon cells bearing the mutation.
As shown in Figure 7A, asbt conferred active bile acid uptake activity in transfected cells.
For example, early investigators observed that transfection of untransformed B cells with a plasmid for constitutive expression of IL-6 conferred the tumorigenic phenotype on the cells [ 2 ] . IL-6 is a key factor in myeloma progression and survival [ 3 4 ] , and also in Kaposi's sarcoma, a solid tumor [ 5 ] . In myeloma, the standard therapy for treatment includes prednisone, which acts by inhibiting IL-6 synthesis.
To gain further insight into the specificity of bile acid cytotoxicity, we conferred active bile acid uptake capacity in CHO cells, a cell type that does not normally metabolize bile acids, by expressing a bile acid transporter.
In contrast, our data showed that the 185delAG mutation, affecting the amino-terminal domain of BRCA1, conferred an increased apoptotic response with no caspase pathway preferentially selected.