Mutant p53 as a guardian of the cancer cell

F Mantovani, L Collavin, G Del Sal - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2019 - nature.com
Forty years of research have established that the p53 tumor suppressor provides a major
barrier to neoplastic transformation and tumor progression by its unique ability to act as an …

Unravelling mechanisms of p53-mediated tumour suppression

KT Bieging, SS Mello, LD Attardi - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract p53 is a crucial tumour suppressor that responds to diverse stress signals by
orchestrating specific cellular responses, including transient cell cycle arrest, cellular …

p53 mutations in cancer

PAJ Muller, KH Vousden - Nature cell biology, 2013 - nature.com
In the past fifteen years, it has become apparent that tumour-associated p53 mutations can
provoke activities that are different to those resulting from simply loss of wild-type tumour …

p53 family and cellular stress responses in cancer

J Pflaum, S Schlosser, M Müller - Frontiers in oncology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
p53 is an important tumor suppressor gene, which is stimulated by cellular stress like
ionizing radiation, hypoxia, carcinogens, and oxidative stress. Upon activation, p53 leads to …

The rebel angel: mutant p53 as the driving oncogene in breast cancer

D Walerych, M Napoli, L Collavin, G Del Sal - Carcinogenesis, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Breast cancer is the most frequent invasive tumor diagnosed in women, causing over 400
000 deaths yearly worldwide. Like other tumors, it is a disease with a complex …

Proteasome machinery is instrumental in a common gain-of-function program of the p53 missense mutants in cancer

D Walerych, K Lisek, R Sommaggio, S Piazza… - Nature cell …, 2016 - nature.com
In cancer, the tumour suppressor gene TP53 undergoes frequent missense mutations that
endow mutant p53 proteins with oncogenic properties. Until now, a universal mutant p53 …

Prion-like aggregation of mutant p53 in cancer

JL Silva, CVDM Gallo, DCF Costa, LP Rangel - Trends in biochemical …, 2014 - cell.com
p53 is a master regulatory protein that participates in cellular processes such as apoptosis,
DNA repair, and cell cycle control. p53 functions as a homotetrameric tumor suppressor, and …

Transcription factor p63 bookmarks and regulates dynamic enhancers during epidermal differentiation

EN Kouwenhoven, M Oti, H Niehues… - EMBO …, 2015 - embopress.org
The transcription factor p63 plays a pivotal role in keratinocyte proliferation and
differentiation in the epidermis. However, how p63 regulates epidermal genes during …

The aggregation of mutant p53 produces prion-like properties in cancer

LP Rangel, DCF Costa, TCRG Vieira, JL Silva - Prion, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The tumor suppressor protein p53 loses its function in more than 50% of human malignant
tumors. Recent studies have suggested that mutant p53 can form aggregates that are …

[HTML][HTML] Screening for E3-ubiquitin ligase inhibitors: challenges and opportunities

V Landré, B Rotblat, S Melino, F Bernassola… - Oncotarget, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) plays a role in the regulation of most cellular
pathways, and its deregulation has been implicated in a wide range of human pathologies …