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Transformation of breast cells by truncated neurokinin-1 receptor is secondary to activation by preprotachykinin-A peptides
16 Nov 2005
Abstract excerpt
Breast cancer remains the cancer with the highest mortality among women in the United States. Peptides derived from the oncogenic Tac1 gene (full transcript: betaPPT-A) stimulate the proliferation of breast cancer cells (BCCs) via seven-transmembrane G protein-coupled neurokinin 1 (NK1) and NK2 receptors. The NK1 gene could generate full-length (NK1-FL) and truncated (NK1-Tr) transcripts. NK1-Tr lacks 100...
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