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Mortalin-p53 interaction in cancer cells is stress dependent and constitutes a selective target for cancer therapy.
Cell death and differentiation - 1 Jun 2011
Lu W-J, Lee N P, Kaul S C, Lan F, Poon R T P, Wadhwa R, Luk J M
Abstract excerpt
Stress protein mortalin is a multifunctional protein and is highly expressed in cancers. It has been shown to interact with tumor suppressor protein-p53 (both wild and mutant types) and inactivates its transcriptional activation and apoptotic functions in cancer cells. In the present study, we found that, unlike most of the cancer cells, HepG2 hepatoma lacked mortalin-p53 interaction. We demonstrate that the...
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