Awakening guardian angels: drugging the p53 pathway

CJ Brown, S Lain, CS Verma, AR Fersht… - Nature Reviews …, 2009 - nature.com
Currently, around 11 million people are living with a tumour that contains an inactivating
mutation of TP53 (the human gene that encodes p53) and another 11 million have tumours …

Regulating the p53 pathway: in vitro hypotheses, in vivo veritas

F Toledo, GM Wahl - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2006 - nature.com
Mutations in TP53, the gene that encodes the tumour suppressor p53, are found in 50% of
human cancers, and increased levels of its negative regulators MDM2 and MDM4 (also …

The roles of MDM2 and MDMX in cancer

O Karni-Schmidt, M Lokshin… - Annual Review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
For more than 25 years, MDM2 and its homolog MDMX (also known as MDM4) have been
shown to exert oncogenic activity. These two proteins are best understood as negative …

The p53 orchestra: Mdm2 and Mdmx set the tone

M Wade, YV Wang, GM Wahl - Trends in cell biology, 2010 - cell.com
The activities of p53 cover diverse aspects of cell biology, including cell cycle control,
apoptosis, metabolism, fertility, differentiation and cellular reprogramming. Although loss of …

Coping with stress: multiple ways to activate p53

HF Horn, KH Vousden - Oncogene, 2007 - nature.com
Over the years, p53 has been shown to sit at the centre of an increasingly complex web of
incoming stress signals and outgoing effector pathways. The number and diversity of stress …

Structural basis for high-affinity peptide inhibition of p53 interactions with MDM2 and MDMX

M Pazgier, M Liu, G Zou, W Yuan, C Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The oncoproteins MDM2 and MDMX negatively regulate the activity and stability of the tumor
suppressor protein p53—a cellular process initiated by MDM2 and/or MDMX binding to the …

Milk-derived antimicrobial peptides: overview, applications, and future perspectives

A Singh, RT Duche, AG Wandhare, JK Sian… - Probiotics and …, 2023 - Springer
The growing consumer awareness towards healthy and safe food has reformed food
processing strategies. Nowadays, food processors are aiming at natural, effective, safe, and …

Targeting the MDM2-p53 interaction for cancer therapy

S Shangary, S Wang - Clinical Cancer Research, 2008 - AACR
Abstract p53 is a powerful tumor suppressor and is an attractive cancer therapeutic target
because it can be functionally activated to eradicate tumors. The gene encoding p53 protein …

USP7 is a master regulator of genome stability

GJ Valles, I Bezsonova, R Woodgate… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Genetic alterations, including DNA mutations and chromosomal abnormalities, are primary
drivers of tumor formation and cancer progression. These alterations can endow cells with a …

USP7-a crucial regulator of cancer hallmarks

G Saha, S Roy, M Basu, MK Ghosh - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the course of three decades of study, the deubiquitinase Herpesvirus associated
Ubiquitin-Specific Protease/Ubiquitin-Specific Protease 7 (HAUSP/USP7) has gradually …