South Korean and Israeli scientists jointly uncovered a new mechanism that suppresses growth of cancer cells.

Seoul National University (SNU) said on Sunday that a team led by Aaron Ciechanover, an Israeli biochemist and winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Professor Kwon Yong-tae found the mechanism.

The scientists said that NF-κB is a key transcriptional regulator involved in inflammation and cell proliferation, survival, and transformation, and overexpression of KPC1, an enzyme involved in processing NF-κB, appears to suppress growth of tumor cells.

The findings of a joint research by SNU and Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) appeared on the April 10 edition of Cell.