Article
p53 alterations in human cancer: more questions than answers.
Oncogene - 2 Apr 2007
Soussi T
Abstract excerpt
The strongest and undisputed fact about p53 is the high frequency of p53 alterations in human cancer and that mutant p53 proteins constitute a complex family of several hundred proteins with heterogeneous properties. Beyond these observations, the p53 pathway and its regulation in a normal cell is like a desert trail, always moving with the wind of novel findings. The field is full of black boxes that are often...
Topics
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
- Animals
- Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins
- Binding Sites
- Carrier Proteins
- DNA Methylation
- Disease Models, Animal
- Humans
- Mice
- Mutation
- Neoplasms
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
- bcl-X Protein
