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PRIMA-1 selectively induces global DNA demethylation in p53 mutant-type thyroid cancer cells.
Journal of biomedical nanotechnology - 1 Jul 2014
Qiang Wei, Jin Tianbo, Yang Qi, Liu Wei, Liu Shu, Ji Meiju, He Nongyue, Chen Chao, Shi Bingyin, Hou Peng
Abstract excerpt
The p53 tumor suppressor pathway blocks carcinogenesis by triggering apoptosis and cellular senescence in response to oncogenic stress. Over 50% of human cancers including thyroid cancer carry loss-of-function mutations in the p53 gene. Recently, the identification of mutant p53-reactivating smal...
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