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Oncogenic mutations of the PIK3CA gene in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas.
International journal of oncology - 1 Jan 2008
Murugan Avaniyapuram Kannan, Hong Nguyen Thi, Fukui Yasuhisa, Munirajan Arasambattu Kannan, Tsuchida Nobuo
Abstract excerpt
Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases (PI3Ks) are heterodimeric lipid kinases that regulate cellular activities such as proliferation, survival, motility and morphology. Recent studies reported that the p110alpha (PIK3CA), catalytic subunit of PI3-kinase is somatically mutated in human cancers. Hot- spot mutations (E542K, E545K and H1047R) are reported to have higher oncogenic potential. Although PIK3CA mutations were...
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