Correspondence on: "Targeting the HERV-K102 envelope elicits pyroptosis and represents a novel therapeutic strategy for acute myeloid leukemia"
Maajid Mohi Ud Din Malik, Rajesh Prasad Jayaswal · 2026
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Maajid Mohi Ud Din Malik and Rajesh Prasad Jayaswal wrote a 2026 letter on a study that made a viral protein a target in acute myeloid leukemia. The study found that to cut the envelope of a human endogenous retrovirus from the genome sparks a fiery cell death in the cancer, through a named alarm path.
The letter praises the work, then raises four method points. No drug test split that death from plain late cell rot. No rescue test proved the named driver. The gene primers may not be specific. And the mouse model had no working immune system, so immune escape went unseen.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maajid Mohi Ud Din Malik, Rajesh Prasad Jayaswal |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 10 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |