p53, apoptosis and human cancers.

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More than half of human cancers contain p53 mutations. Structural analyses of p53-DNA interactions indicate that hot spots of p53 mutation are often either involved in direct contact with target DNA or those that maintain specific conformation of p53. One significant consequence of the loss of wild type p53 function is inhibition of apoptosis, which may be through the inability of mutant p53 to transcriptionally...

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