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No PUMA, no death: implications for p53-dependent apoptosis.
Cancer cell - 1 Oct 2003
Yu Jian, Zhang Lin
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More than a decade ago, it was found that one of the two essential physiological functions of p53 is to selectively destroy stressed cells through apoptosis. Despite the large number of studies describing p53-dependent apoptosis since then, how p53 turns on the apoptotic switch has remained enigmatic. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Jeffers et al. report that knockout of PUMA, a recently identified BH3-only Bcl-2...
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