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Yeast As a Chassis for Developing Functional Assays to Study Human P53
Published on: August 4, 2019
P53 transcriptional activities: a general overview and some thoughts
Jean-François Millau1, Nathalie Bastien1, Régen Drouin1
1Service of Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, 3001, 12th Avenue North, Sherbrooke J1H 5N4, QC, Canada.
Abstract:
P53 is a master transcriptional regulator controlling several main cellular pathways. Its role is to adapt gene expression programs in order to maintain cellular homeostasis and genome integrity in response to stresses. P53 is found mutated in about half of human cancers and most mutations are clustered within the DNA-binding domain of the protein resulting in altered p53 transcriptional activity. This illustrates the importance of the gene regulations achieved by p53. The aim of this review is to provide a global overview of the current understanding of p53 transcriptional activities and to discuss some ongoing questions and unresolved points about p53 transcriptional activity.
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