Subtypes
Humans express four types of Id proteins (called ID1, ID2, ID3, and ID4).
A recent publication in Cancer Research (August 2010) has shown that ID1 can be used to mark Endothelial Progentior Cells which are critical to tumour growth and angiogenesis. This publication has demonstrated that targeting ID1 resulted in decreased tumour growth. Therefore, ID1 could be used to design a novel cancer therapy.
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