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Inhibiting mutations in the transforming growth factor beta type 2 receptor in recurrent human breast cancer.
Cancer research - 15 Jan 2001
Lücke C D, Philpott A, Metcalfe J C, Thompson A M, Hughes-Davies L, Kemp P R, Hesketh R
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Members of the transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) family are potent inhibitors of the growth of many epithelial cell types. Transmembrane signaling by TGF-beta occurs via a complex of the serine/threonine kinases TGF-beta type 1 receptor and TGF-beta type 2 receptor (TGFBR2), and inactivating mutations in the latter have recently been detected in some primary tumors and in several types of tumor-derived...
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