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The emerging role of speckle-type POZ protein (SPOP) in cancer development.
Drug discovery today - 1 Sept 2014
Mani Ram-Shankar
Abstract excerpt
Speckle-type POZ (pox virus and zinc finger protein) protein (SPOP) is an E3 ubiquitin ligase adaptor protein that is frequently mutated in prostate and endometrial cancers. All the cancer-associated SPOP mutations reported to date are clustered in the meprin and TRAF (Tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor) homology (MATH) domain, presumably affecting substrate binding. SPOP mutations in prostate...
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