Figure 1.
Systematical diagram of design idea and researching flow of discovering a dominant negative mutant derived from survivin with stronger pro-apoptotic activity to cancer. (A) Compared with TmSm34, TmSm48, TmSm84, TmSm34/48, and TmSm34/48/84, TmSm34/84 had the strongest capacity in inhibiting proliferation and promoting apoptosis of A549 cells. (B) TmSm34/84 could reverse the drug resistance of A549 CSCs to Adriamycin (ADM) by down-regulating survivin, Bcl-2, and P-gp expression, while up-regulating cleaved caspase-3 expression.
