Article
[Endocrine tumors associated to protein Gsalpha/Gi2alpha mutations].
Arquivos brasileiros de endocrinologia e metabologia - 1 Oct 2005
Bezerra Milena Gurgel Teles, Latronico Ana Claudia, Fragoso Maria Candida B V
Abstract excerpt
Many oncogenic mutations promote tumor growth by inducing autonomous activity of proteins that normally transmit proliferative signal initiated by extracellular factors. G proteins are a family of guanine nucleotide binding proteins, which are structurally homologous and widely distributed in eukaryotic cells. They are composed of three different subunits (alpha, beta e gamma). The alpha subunit, which contains...
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