Mutant p53: an oncogenic transcription factor.

Abstract excerpt

Inactivation of tumor-suppressor genes is one of the key hallmarks of a tumor. Unlike other tumor-suppressor genes, p53 is inactivated by missense mutations in half of all human cancers. It has become increasingly clear that the resulting mutant p53 proteins do not represent only the mere loss of wild-type p53 tumor suppressor activity, but gain new oncogenic properties favoring the insurgence, the maintenance,...

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