Targeted cancer cell killing by highly selective miRNA-triggered activation of a prokaryotic toxin-antitoxin system
Alice Turnbull, Camino Bermejo‐Rodríguez, Mark A. Preston, María Garrido-Barros, Belén Pimentel, Guillermo de la Cueva-Méndez
The paper describes a synthetic toxin-antitoxin system that selectively kills cancer cells overexpressing a specific microRNA by linking the kis gene to a target site for that microRNA.
ACS Synthetic Biology · Jul 26, 2019Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology