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Vav1: A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde protein--good for the hematopoietic system, bad for cancer.
Oncotarget - 6 Oct 2015
Katzav Shulamit
Abstract excerpt
Many deregulated signal transducer proteins are involved in various cancers at numerous stages of tumor development. One of these, Vav1, is normally expressed exclusively in the hematopoietic system, where it functions as a specific GDP/GTP nucleotide exchange factor (GEF), strictly regulated by tyrosine phosphorylation. Vav was first identified in an NIH3T3 screen for oncogenes. Although the oncogenic form of...
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