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The role of BRAF in the pathogenesis of thyroid carcinoma.
Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) - 1 Jun 2015
Li Dan-Dan, Zhang Yi-Feng, Xu Hui-Xiong, Zhang Xiao-Ping
Abstract excerpt
BRAF is a cytoplasmic serine-threonine protein kinasethat plays a critical role in the MAPK signaling pathway. BRAF is the only member of the RAF family activated by mutation in human cancers. A single amino acid substitution (V600E) accounts for a multitude of human cancers, which causes constitutive kinase activity. In papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) and papillary-derived anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC), the...
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