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Excess beta-catenin promotes accumulation of transcriptionally active p53.
The EMBO journal - 1 Jun 1999
Damalas A, Ben-Ze'ev A, Simcha I, Shtutman M, Leal J F, Zhurinsky J, Geiger B, Oren M
Abstract excerpt
beta-catenin is a multifunctional protein, acting both as a structural component of the cell adhesion machinery and as a transducer of extracellular signals. Deregulated beta-catenin protein expression, due to mutations in the beta-catenin gene itself or in its upstream regulator, the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene, is prevalent in colorectal cancer and in several other tumor types, and attests to the...
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