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Elimination of B-RAF in oncogenic C-RAF-expressing alveolar epithelial type II cells reduces MAPK signal intensity and lung tumor growth.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 26 Sept 2014
Zanucco Emanuele, El-Nikhely Nefertiti, Götz Rudolf, Weidmann Katharina, Pfeiffer Verena, Savai Rajkumar, Seeger Werner, Ullrich Axel, Rapp Ulf R
Abstract excerpt
Tumors are often greatly dependent on signaling cascades promoting cell growth or survival and may become hypersensitive to inactivation of key components within these signaling pathways. Ras and RAF mutations found in human cancer confer constitutive activity to these signaling molecules thereby converting them into an oncogenic state. RAF dimerization is required for normal Ras-dependent RAF activation and is...
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