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Heat shock proteins in cancer: chaperones of tumorigenesis.
Trends in biochemical sciences - 1 Mar 2006
Calderwood Stuart K, Khaleque Md Abdul, Sawyer Douglas B, Ciocca Daniel R
Abstract excerpt
The heat shock proteins (HSPs) induced by cell stress are expressed at high levels in a wide range of tumors and are closely associated with a poor prognosis and resistance to therapy. The increased transcription of HSPs in tumor cells is due to loss of p53 function and to higher expression of the proto-oncogenes HER2 and c-Myc, and is crucial to tumorigenesis. The HSP family members play overlapping, essential...
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