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Arsenic and an Old Place: Rescuing p53 Mutants in Cancer.
Cancer cell - 8 Feb 2021
Loh Stewart N
Abstract excerpt
Tumor suppressor p53 lacks conventional drug binding pockets that would facilitate rescue of cancer-driving mutations. In this issue, Chen et al. discover a new role for an old drug, arsenic trioxide, in binding and stabilizing p53. The arsenic atom binds in a conserved, cryptic site and reactivates multiple p53 mutants.
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