Altieri Dario C
Tumor Microenvironment and Metastasis Program, The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2015 Mar;39:91-6. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2014.12.007. Epub 2015 Jan 12.
Although technically a member of the Inhibitor of Apoptosis (IAP) gene family, survivin has consistently defied assumptions, refuted predictions and challenged paradigms. Despite its more than 5500 citations currently in Medline, the biology of survivin has remained fascinatingly complex, its exploitation in human disease, most notably cancer, tantalizing, and its regulation of cellular homeostasis unexpectedly far-reaching. An inconvenient outsider that resists schemes and dogmas, survivin continues to hold great promise to unlock fundamental circuitries of cellular functions in health and disease.
尽管从技术上讲,生存素是凋亡抑制蛋白(IAP)基因家族的一员,但它一直违背各种假设、推翻预测并挑战范式。尽管目前在医学文献数据库(Medline)中其被引用次数超过5500次,但生存素的生物学特性仍然极其复杂,它在人类疾病(尤其是癌症)中的应用前景诱人,并且其对细胞稳态的调节作用出人意料地广泛。作为一个抗拒既定模式和教条的不合时宜的局外人,生存素仍极有可能揭示健康和疾病状态下细胞功能的基本机制。