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Restoring p53-dependent tumor suppression.
Cancer biology & therapy - 1 Jan 2000
Wang Wenge, Rastinejad Farzan, El-Deiry Wafik S
Abstract excerpt
p53 represents an ideal target for anti-cancer drug design, because p53 is mutated in more than half of human tumors. Most of the remaining tumors, although carrying wild-type p53, have defects in the p53-mediated apoptotic pathway. Activation of p53 activity by either chemotherapy or radiotherapy induces p53-dependent apoptosis in tumor cells with wild-type p53. Supplying exogenous wild-type p53 in cancer cells...
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