Saturday 30 November 2013

Researchers Identify a Rescuer for Vital Tumor-Suppressor

At The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, a protector for PTEN, a tumor-thwarting protein often missing in cancer cells, has emerged from research published online at iNature Cell Biology/i this week. "We discovered that the enzyme USP13 stabilizes the PTEN protein by reversing a process that marks various proteins for destruction by the cell's proteasome," said the paper's senior author Li Ma, Ph.D., assistant professor of Experimental Radiation ...

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