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PTEN: from pathology to biology.
Trends in cell biology - 1 Sept 2003
Sulis Maria Luisa, Parsons Ramon
Abstract excerpt
The PTEN tumour suppressor gene is mutated frequently in many malignancies and its importance in the development of cancer is probably underestimated. As the primary phosphatase of phosphatidylinositol (3,4,5)-trisphosphate, PTEN has a central role in reigning in the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI 3-kinase) network to control cellular homeostasis. Cells that lack PTEN are unable to regulate the PtdIns 3-kinase...
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