El equilibrio entre los niveles de expresión de B55α y Greatwall predice la sensibilidad a la inhibición de Greatwall

Róbert Zach1, Michael Annis2, Sandra M Martin-Guerrero3

  • 1Genome Damage and Stability Centre, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RQ, UK. r.zach@sussex.ac.uk.

Nature communications
|August 27, 2025
PubMed
Resumen

La inhibición de la cinasa de la pared grande desestabiliza la mitosis, causando anomalías celulares. Este efecto está específicamente mediado por la fosfatasa PP2A-B55α, lo que pone de relieve una potencial vulnerabilidad terapéutica.

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