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p27Kip1 and human cancers: A reappraisal of a still enigmatic protein.
Cancer letters - 10 Sept 2017
Bencivenga Debora, Caldarelli Ilaria, Stampone Emanuela, Mancini Francesco Paolo, Balestrieri Maria Luisa, Della Ragione Fulvio, Borriello Adriana
Abstract excerpt
p27Kip1 is a cell cycle regulator firstly identified as a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor. For a long time, its function has been associated to cell cycle progression inhibition at G1/S boundary in response to antiproliferative stimuli. The picture resulted complicated by the discovery that p27Kip1 is an intrinsically unstructured protein, with numerous CDK-dependent and -independent functions and involvement...
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