VDAC1-based peptides–A hallmark of cancer cells is their ability to avoid apoptosis [345,346] by overexpressing anti-apoptotic proteins such as HK-I, HK-II, Bcl2, and Bcl-xL [201,284,347,348,349,350,351,352], which interact with VDAC1 to prevent apoptosis [4,23,24,26,27,29,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,201,202,204,353]. The gene discussed is HK1; the disease is cancer.