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Stabilization and productive positioning roles of the C2 domain of PTEN tumor suppressor.
Cancer research - 15 Dec 2000
Georgescu M M, Kirsch K H, Kaloudis P, Yang H, Pavletich N P, Hanafusa H
Abstract excerpt
PTEN is a tumor suppressor frequently inactivated in brain, prostate, and uterine cancer. It acts as a phosphoinositide phosphatase and consists of an amino-terminal phosphatase domain tightly linked to a COOH-terminal C2 domain involved in lipid membrane-binding. We investigated the functions of the C2 domain and their relevance for tumor growth. To discriminate between PTEN C2 domain ability to recruit or to...
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