Gene Information

Gene symbol: ABCB1

Gene name: ATP-binding cassette, sub-family B (MDR/TAP), member 1

HGNC ID: 40

Synonyms: P-gp, CD243, GP170, ABC20

Related Genes

# Gene Symbol Number of hits
1 ABCC1 1 hits
2 HLA-A 1 hits
3 IL2 1 hits

Related Sentences

# PMID Sentence
1 9378159 Highly expressed oncogenes such as bcl-2, HER2/neu and others or mutated suppressor genes such as p53 or BRCA1 have been characterised as hereditary susceptibility genes leading to syndromes such as breast/ovarian cancer syndrome, Li-Fraumeni and others.
2 9378159 Furthermore efflux-genes such as MDR-1 or MRP can be circumvented, suicide-genes can be employed which can facilitate sensitivity by encoding enzymes capable of converting inactive forms of a drug into toxic antimetabolites and immunotherapy can be achieved, by transfection of tumour cells with adenoviral vectors encoding immunomodulators such as IL-2 or MHC molecules.