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Yeast As a Chassis for Developing Functional Assays to Study Human P53
Published on: August 4, 2019
Shaping genetic alterations in human cancer: the p53 mutation paradigm
1Université P.M. Curie, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France. thierry.soussi@ki.se
Abstract:
p53 mutations are found in 50% of human cancers. Molecular epidemiology has shown strong correlations between the spectrum of p53 mutations and exposure to exogenous carcinogens. This spectrum is influenced quantitatively and qualitatively by various upstream genetic filters that modulate carcinogen activation, detoxification, and/or DNA repair. In this review, we will discuss how other factors such as tissue specificity, SNP of genes associated with the p53 pathway, other genetic alterations, or p53 mutant heterogeneity can act as a second set of downstream filters that also have a profound impact on the spectrum of p53 mutations.
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