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Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 76100
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| Introduction |
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The p53 tumor suppressor gene is mutated in over 50% of human cancers. Seventy-four percent of these mutations are missense, which result in full-length, albeit mutant, proteins. This fraction of missense mutations is much higher than in other tumor suppressor genes (5) and implies that p53 mutant proteins confer some selective advantage in carcinogenesis. One important feature of the oncogenic activity of p53 mutants is their ability to interfere with p53-dependent apoptosis by a dominant negative mechanism and, with p53-independent apoptosis, by a yet unknown mechanism that may involve transactivation. Because evasion of programmed cell death offers a strong selective advantage to cancer cells in metastasis and during chemotherapy, the antiapoptotic function of p53 mutants may be especially devastating.
Unlike wild-type p53, which under normal conditions has a short half-life curtailed when it is targeted by Mdm2 for degradation, mutant p53 proteins are outside this negative feedback loop and accumulate to high levels in cancer cells (6, 7, 8) . Hence, given the high mutant p53 expression levels, reactivation of the wild-type function of p53 mutants offers the possibility of deferentially targeting such transformed cells for apoptosis. A recent study (9) showed that compounds that restore wild-type p53 function can be injected in vivo with low toxicity and are effective in controlling tumors with mutant p53. Moreover, a different approach that used a peptide derived from the COOH terminus of p53 showed that reactivation of wild-type p53 function induces apoptosis in cells that express mutant p53 or high levels of wild-type p53 but not in cells that express low (perhaps physiological) levels of p53 (10) . An understanding of the oncogenic gain of function of p53 mutants as well as the important structural regions and interactions of these proteins is therefore important to optimize reactivation approaches as well as to circumvent this gain of function of p53 mutants, perhaps even with existing treatment modalities.
| Oncogenic Effects of p53 Mutants |
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The generally accepted mechanism behind mutant p53
trans-dominant suppression is the shutdown of wild-type
p53 function because of heteromerization with mutant p53. Wild-type p53
forms a tetramer to perform its tumor suppressor activity, and this
oligomerization is mediated by the oligomerization region (residues
319360). This region is fully functional in core domain mutants
(23
, 24) . It appears that in complex the mutant has the
ability to drive wild-type p53 into a mutant or perhaps inactive
conformation. Thus, when wild-type and mutant p53 were cotranslated,
wild-type p53 lost the epitope recognized by the PAb1620 antibody and
became reactive with the mutant specific PAb240 (25)
. It
is not surprising, therefore, that the 273 (R to H) mutant, which seems
to retain almost all of the wild-type conformation (98% folding of
wild-type p53; see Table 1
), has a very
weak dominant negative activity (24)
. Heteromerization
decreases the ability of wild-type p53 to bind to its various specific
DNA target sequences (22, 23, 24
, 26
, 27)
and transactivate
downstream genes (27)
. Interestingly, the half-life of
wild-type p53 increases dramatically when it is bound to mutant p53
(22
, 28)
, probably the result of a sharp decrease in Mdm2
induction. A fragment of p53 termed DD that consists of amino acids
14 and 315390, which includes the oligomerization domain, was as
effective as the full-length murine p53 135(A to V) mutant in
cooperating with ras to transform rat embryo fibroblasts by
eliminating wild-type p53 function (22)
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324355, which is unable to oligomerize
because of the deletion in the oligomerization domain, is still able to
transactivate the p21 promoter. This transactivation is suppressed
by core domain mutants (30)
. This may indicate that
the dominant negative effect of these mutants is attributable to their
ability to squelch out factors required for wild-type p53 function and
especially for transactivation (for review, see Ref. 31
). Although trans-dominance of p53 core domain mutants may not be surprising, the ability of p53 mutant proteins to exert wild-type p53-independent oncogenic effects is more unexpected. This effect was first reported in murine L12 pre-B cells, a cell line null for p53 that induced local tumors in mice that later regressed (32) . However, L12 cells that expressed the murine p53 mutant 132(C to F) caused lethal tumors (32) . Such mutant p53-mediated increased tumorigenicity was also demonstrated in (10) 3 cells (33 , 34) and T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells (35) .
The gain of function of p53 mutants has been characterized further.
Core domain p53 mutants were shown to increase mutation frequency
(36)
, block differentiation (37)
, and
increase metastatic potential (35
, 38)
. A striking finding
was that p53 mutants could interfere with wild-type p53-independent
apoptosis induced by growth factor removal (39
, 40)
,
various types of DNA damage in myeloid and H1299 lung adenocarcinoma
cells (40
, 41)
, and the combination of HBV-X
expression and tumor necrosis factor-
(42)
. This
function of p53 mutants may be left over from cryptic wild-type p53,
inasmuch as low levels of wild-type p53 have been shown to protect
cells from apoptosis in a growth arrest independent manner
(43
, 44)
. p53 mutants also interfered with apoptosis,
growth suppression, and p21 transactivation induced by p73
(45, 46, 47)
. This gives rise to the hypothesis that mutant
p53 has a gain of function because it acts as a dominant negative for
p53 family members p73 and perhaps p63. The oligomerization domains of
p53 and p73 have been shown not to associate (48)
, which
casts doubt on a dominant negative interaction between mutant p53 and
p73, at least by a mechanism that involves heteromerization through the
oligomerization domain. However, it has been subsequently shown that
p53 mutants do associate with p73 (46)
and that this
interaction occurs through the DNA binding domains of these mutants
(47)
.
p53 is polymorphic at residue 72 (argenine/proline; Ref. 49 ). Interestingly, the association between p73 and the 143(V to A) mutant was stronger with the argenine than the proline isoform, and the argenine isoform abrogated the growth suppression effect of p73, whereas the proline isoform did not (46) . Moreover, examination of the frequency of the arginine isoform in unrelated populations showed a decrease as one approaches the equator, indicating that this isoform was selected out because of the potent p53 mutants it produces as a result of the higher levels of UV radiation (46) .
| Is Mutant p53 Gain of Function Mediated by Transactivation? |
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It appears that the same NH2-terminal domain that mediates wild-type p53 transactivation is also necessary for the transactivation ability of p53 mutants, which argues that the transactivation is direct. Mutation of residues 22 and 23 (critical in wild-type p53 transactivation ability) in the transactivation domain of the 281(D to G) p53 mutant inhibited its transactivation of MDR-1 (50) and c-myc (51) . In addition, the deletion of residues 158 in 281(D to G) p53 inhibited its transactivation of the proliferating cell nuclear antigen promoter, MDR-1 gene promoter, and the human epidermal growth factor receptor promoter (34) . Although no consensus sequence has been found, mutant p53 has been shown to bind DNA of divergent sequences that have in common a tendency to adopt a non-B-DNA conformation (57) .
Is transactivation the mechanism behind the gain of function of p53
mutants? Transactivation of MDR-1 seemed a promising candidate as the
mechanism for mutant p53 antiapoptotic function, given that mutant p53
confers resistance against drugs such as etoposide and doxorubicin
(40
, 41)
. However, mutant p53-mediated resistance to
-irradiation and growth factor removal-induced apoptosis
(40)
is not explained by this mechanism. Mutant
p53-mediated resistance to cisplatin-induced apoptosis is also not
explained, because cisplatin toxicity is MDR-1 independent. Although it
is still unclear which gene or genes transactivated by mutant p53 are
responsible for its gain of function, there are several lines of
evidence that indicate that transactivation ability is essential.
Mutation of NH2-terminal residues 22 and 23,
necessary for wild-type as well as mutant p53-mediated transactivation,
caused a loss of the enhanced tumorigenicity conferred by the 281(D to
G) p53 mutant to (10)
3 cells (50)
. Furthermore, the
murine 135(A to V) p53 mutant interfered with apoptosis induced by
agents such as cisplatin and etoposide but not with apoptosis induced
by actinomycin D, a powerful transcription inhibitor (40)
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| Combined Effects of Trans-dominance and Gain of Function of p53 Mutants |
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Whatever the mechanism behind mutant p53 oncogenicity, there is convincing evidence from Li-Fraumeni syndrome families that missense mutations in the core DNA binding domain of p53 are indeed oncogenic. Seventy-one percent of families with Li-Fraumeni and 22% of families with Li-Fraumeni-like syndrome have p53 germline mutations in one of the p53 alleles. A comparison between families with core domain missense mutations and mutations that led to no expression or truncation of p53 showed that the former had a significantly higher incidence of cancer, and the age of cancer onset was earlier (60) .
Several clinical studies correlated mutant p53 expression and enhanced angiogenesis. It was shown that mutant p53 decreased the expression of the angiogenesis inhibitor thrombospondin-1 (61) , up-regulated the vascular endothelial growth factor (62 , 63) , and up-regulated the basic fibroblast growth factor (64) . This up-regulation of angiogenesis was at least partly attributable to the dominant negative action of mutant p53, inasmuch as the exogenous expression of wild-type p53 was shown to inhibit angiogenesis (65) and specifically the vascular endothelial growth factor (66) .
Similarly, clinical studies assessing the effect of doxorubicin chemotherapy in breast cancer (67) , cisplatin chemotherapy in advanced ovarian carcinoma (68) , and general survival (69) found that mutant p53 expression resulted in significantly worse prognoses.
| Different Mutants Vary in Their Oncogenicity |
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Success in the restoration of the wild-type p53 phenotype to cells with
p53 mutants may also follow the general pattern outlined above if
physiological criteria such as apoptosis, tumor regression, and
inhibition of colony formation and proliferation are used. By these
criteria, successful restoration to wild-type p53 function of mutants
was shown thus far for mutations 273(R to H; Refs. 10 , 75
, 76
), 273(R
to C; Ref. 76
), 280(R to K; Ref. 10
), 241(S
to F; Ref. 9
), 248(R to Q; Ref. 75
, 76
), and
249(R to S, Ref. 9
). All of these mutations except the
last are contact mutations, and the 249(R to S) has been shown to cause
only local structural changes and has a degree of folding similar to
p53 proteins mutated at 248R (Table 1)
.
What emerges from this analysis is the view that there is a spectrum of
p53 oncogenic mutations, where at one end there are mutants that are
weaker in their mutant p53 function and more amendable to restoration
of wild-type p53 function. At the very edge of this end is inactive
(cryptic) p53, which is not a mutant but nevertheless demands
activation in the form of modifications to the negative regulatory
COOH-terminal domain to exhibit the tumor suppressor response
(77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85)
. According to this view, what lies at the other
end of the spectrum is a set of missense core domain mutations that
cause widespread changes in the p53 protein (Table 1
, Fig. 1
). The resulting mutants are stable and
would be refractory to attempts to restore them to wild-type p53
function. The conformationally unstable mutants such as the temperature
sensitive 143(V to A), which has a mutant conformation at 38°C and a
wild-type conformation at 32°C, are expected to be somewhere in
between. An illustration is the difference between the murine
temperature sensitive 135(A to V) and the stable murine 132(C to F).
The former exhibits pronounced gain of function at 38°C
(40)
,3
but this is completely lost upon modification of the extreme
COOH-terminus, important for mutant p53 stability (see below) by
alternative splicing3
. The 132(C to F) mutant
also exhibits pronounced gain of function, but it is not lost with
alternative splicing of the COOH-terminus (86)
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| Inactivation of p53 Mutants or Reactivation to a Wild-Type p53 Phenotype |
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Evidence that the extreme COOH terminus is important for mutant p53 stability comes from data that showed that truncation of the COOH terminus of the murine 135(A to V) mutant caused it to become reactive with PAb246 and PAb1620, core domain antibodies specific for the wild-type conformation (25) . Functionally, modification of the extreme COOH terminus resulted in a loss of mutant p53 transactivation potential in the 281(D to G) mutant (51) and a loss of wild-type p53-independent antiapoptotic gain of function in the 135(A to V) mutant.3 Furthermore, modification of the extreme COOH terminus caused some oncogenic p53 mutants to regain DNA binding to p53 specific elements and some even to regain the ability to transactivate wild-type p53 target genes (76 , 90, 91, 92, 93, 94) .
The DNA binding core domain was a second target for modification and initially investigated by introducing a second mutation in the DNA binding domain of p53 oncogenic mutants and screening for suppression of the oncogenic function of the mutants. Such suppressor mutations greatly decreased the number of colonies formed relative to cells expressing the single, oncogenic mutations. Also, suppressor mutations led to an increase in transactivation from wild-type p53 specific promoters and induction of death in BHK cells (76 , 95 , 96) . A combination of suppressor mutation and COOH-terminal truncation yielded the best results (76) .
A peptide derived from the COOH terminus (residues 361382) was found to bind to both the COOH terminus and the DNA binding domain and presumably to interfere with the interactions between these two regions (97) . The presence of the peptide reestablished wild-type p53-specific DNA binding and transactivation (75 , 97) . When fused to the Antennapedia homeodomain to facilitate cell entry, it could also retard colony formation and induce apoptosis of cells expressing high levels of wild-type p53 or cells expressing high levels of mutant p53 (10 , 75) . This peptide did not, however, induce apoptosis in cells expressing normal levels of wild-type p53 (10) . This approach, reminiscent in its thinking to the ONYX-015 virus-selective killing of cells not expressing wild-type p53 (98, 99, 100, 101) , relies on the high levels of mutant p53 normally expressed in cancers as the selective agent, which is then reactivated to wild-type p53 and causes apoptosis. The reason for the high levels of expression is that most p53 mutants are effectively outside the negative feedback loop of Mdm2. Unlike the wild type, p53 mutants do not transactivate the mdm2 promoter, and hence insufficient Mdm2 is expressed to target the p53 for degradation (7 , 8) . Alternatively, p53 mutants may bind Mdm2 less efficiently or not at all, and this may prevent their degradation (6) .
Recently, a large-scale screen found two compounds that could keep the DNA binding core domain of p53 stable in the wild-type conformation upon heating. This approach seems to depend not on mutant p53 reactivation per se but prevention of the nascent p53 protein from assuming the mutant conformation. The novelty of these compounds is that they are relatively stable in vivo and have no significant toxicity. When they were administered to nude mice xenografted with a human melanoma cell line that possessed the 249(R to S) mutant and a carcinoma cell line that possessed the 241(S to F) mutant, tumor growth of the xenografted cell lines was significantly suppressed (9) .
Possession of mutated p53 at high levels may yet prove to be a
double-edged sword for cancer cells. In the long term, transient
restoration of wild-type p53 function to p53 mutants may develop into a
powerful therapeutic modality that will enable the selective killing of
cancer cells. However, given the differences between p53 mutations, it
is probable that a significant number of the more stable conformational
mutants will be refractory to such manipulations. Hence, an
understanding of the effects and important functional regions of p53
mutants may lead to approaches that can neutralize the oncogenic
activity of such mutants that cannot be restored to wild-type p53
function. Thus, the use of agents that can inhibit mutant p53 function
may increase the efficiency of chemotherapy (Fig. 2)
. Mutant p53 inhibition, together with
the induction of programmed cell death, can be a feature of the same
agent as is the case with actinomycin D (40)
. The
screening of the existing repertoire of chemotherapeutic agents for
effectiveness against cancer cells with p53 mutants will result in the
ability to tailor the chemotherapy to the particular p53 mutant
involved in the cancer of an individual patient and in the more
effective killing of the cancer cells.
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| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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| FOOTNOTES |
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1 To whom requests for reprints should be
addressed, at Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute
of Science, Rehovot, Israel 76100. Phone: 972-8-9344501; 972-8-9466264;
Fax: 972-8-9465265; E-mail: varda.rotter{at}weizmann.ac.il ![]()
2 The abbreviation used is: MDR-1, multidrug
resistance 1. ![]()
3 Sigal, A., Matas, D., Almog, N., Goldfinger, N.,
and Rotter, V. Anti-apoptotic activity of p53 mutants is dependent on
the C-terminus, submitted for publication. ![]()
Received 8/ 4/00. Accepted 10/31/00.
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Z. R. A. Razak, R. J. Varkonyi, M. Kulp-McEliece, C. Caslini, J. R. Testa, M. E. Murphy, and D. Broccoli p53 Differentially Inhibits Cell Growth Depending on the Mechanism of Telomere Maintenance Mol. Cell. Biol., July 1, 2004; 24(13): 5967 - 5977. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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C.-Q. Li, A. I. Robles, C. L. Hanigan, L. J. Hofseth, L. J. Trudel, C. C. Harris, and G. N. Wogan Apoptotic Signaling Pathways Induced by Nitric Oxide in Human Lymphoblastoid Cells Expressing Wild-Type or Mutant p53 Cancer Res., May 1, 2004; 64(9): 3022 - 3029. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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S. Pospisilova, C. Siligan, J. Ban, G. Jug, and H. Kovar Constitutive and DNA Damage Inducible Activation of pig3 and MDM2 Genes by Tumor-Derived p53 Mutant C277Y Mol. Cancer Res., May 1, 2004; 2(5): 296 - 304. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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J. C. Schroeder, K. Conway, Y. Li, K. Mistry, D. A. Bell, and J. A. Taylor p53 Mutations in Bladder Cancer: Evidence for Exogenous versus Endogenous Risk Factors Cancer Res., November 1, 2003; 63(21): 7530 - 7538. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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F. J. Kaye and T. Komiya New Leads Suggest a Clinically Relevant Genotype-Phenotype Relationship for the p53 Gene J Natl Cancer Inst, July 2, 2003; 95(13): 926 - 927. [Full Text] [PDF] |
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S. A. Ahrendt, Y. Hu, M. Buta, M. P. McDermott, N. Benoit, S. C. Yang, L. Wu, and D. Sidransky p53 Mutations and Survival in Stage I Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Results of a Prospective Study J Natl Cancer Inst, July 2, 2003; 95(13): 961 - 970. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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E. Blanc, D. Goldschneider, E. Ferrandis, M. Barrois, G. Le Roux, S. Leonce, S. Douc-Rasy, J. Benard, and G. Raguenez MYCN Enhances P-gp/MDR1 Gene Expression in the Human Metastatic Neuroblastoma IGR-N-91 Model Am. J. Pathol., July 1, 2003; 163(1): 321 - 331. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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J. Breton, F. Sichel, A. Abbas, J. Marnay, D. Arsene, and M. Lechevrel Simultaneous use of DGGE and DHPLC to screen TP53 mutations in cancers of the esophagus and cardia from a European high incidence area (Lower Normandy, France) Mutagenesis, May 1, 2003; 18(3): 299 - 306. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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R. Danesi, F. De Braud, S. Fogli, T. M. De Pas, A. Di Paolo, G. Curigliano, and M. Del Tacca Pharmacogenetics of Anticancer Drug Sensitivity in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Pharmacol. Rev., March 1, 2003; 55(1): 57 - 103. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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D. Falke, M. Fisher, D. Ye, and R. L. Juliano Design of artificial transcription factors to selectively regulate the pro-apoptotic bax gene Nucleic Acids Res., February 1, 2003; 31(3): e10 - e10. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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L. A. Martinez, I. Naguibneva, H. Lehrmann, A. Vervisch, T. Tchenio, G. Lozano, and A. Harel-Bellan Synthetic small inhibiting RNAs: Efficient tools to inactivate oncogenic mutations and restore p53 pathways PNAS, November 12, 2002; 99(23): 14849 - 14854. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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C.-Q. Li, L. J. Trudel, and G. N. Wogan Nitric oxide-induced genotoxicity, mitochondrial damage, and apoptosis in human lymphoblastoid cells expressing wild-type and mutant p53 PNAS, August 6, 2002; 99(16): 10364 - 10369. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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S. Strano, G. Fontemaggi, A. Costanzo, M. G. Rizzo, O. Monti, A. Baccarini, G. Del Sal, M. Levrero, A. Sacchi, M. Oren, et al. Physical Interaction with Human Tumor-derived p53 Mutants Inhibits p63 Activities J. Biol. Chem., May 17, 2002; 277(21): 18817 - 18826. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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A. Bravard, A. Ageron-Blanc, S. Alvarez, P. Drane, Y. le Rhun, F. Paris, C. Luccioni, and E. May Correlation between antioxidant status, tumorigenicity and radiosensitivity in sister rat cell lines Carcinogenesis, May 1, 2002; 23(5): 705 - 711. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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Y. Iwanaga and K.-T. Jeang Expression of Mitotic Spindle Checkpoint Protein hsMAD1 Correlates with Cellular Proliferation and Is Activated by a Gain-of-Function p53 Mutant Cancer Res., May 1, 2002; 62(9): 2618 - 2624. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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J. Smeds, P. Berggren, X. Ma, Z. Xu, K. Hemminki, and R. Kumar Genetic status of cell cycle regulators in squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus: the CDKN2A (p16INK4a and p14ARF ) and p53 genes are major targets for inactivation Carcinogenesis, April 1, 2002; 23(4): 645 - 655. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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H. Stopper and W. K. Lutz Induction of micronuclei in human cell lines and primary cells by combination treatment with {gamma}-radiation and ethyl methanesulfonate Mutagenesis, March 1, 2002; 17(2): 177 - 181. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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A. Yuan, C.-J. Yu, K.-T. Luh, S.-H. Kuo, Y.-C. Lee, and P.-C. Yang Aberrant p53 Expression Correlates With Expression of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor mRNA and Interleukin-8 mRNA and Neoangiogenesis in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer J. Clin. Oncol., February 15, 2002; 20(4): 900 - 910. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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B. D. Jeffy, R. B. Chirnomas, E. J. Chen, J. M. Gudas, and D. F. Romagnolo Activation of the Aromatic Hydrocarbon Receptor Pathway Is Not Sufficient for Transcriptional Repression of BRCA-1: Requirements for Metabolism of Benzo[a]pyrene to 7r,8t-Dihydroxy-9t,10-epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene Cancer Res., January 1, 2002; 62(1): 113 - 121. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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J. Sampath, D. Sun, V. J. Kidd, J. Grenet, A. Gandhi, L. H. Shapiro, Q. Wang, G. P. Zambetti, and J. D. Schuetz Mutant p53 Cooperates with ETS and Selectively Up-regulates Human MDR1 Not MRP1 J. Biol. Chem., October 12, 2001; 276(42): 39359 - 39367. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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A. I. Robles, N. A. Bemmels, A. B. Foraker, and C. C. Harris APAF-1 Is a Transcriptional Target of p53 in DNA Damage-induced Apoptosis Cancer Res., September 1, 2001; 61(18): 6660 - 6664. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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M. S. Rieber, U. Zangemeister-Wittke, and M. Rieber p53-independent Induction of Apoptosis in Human Melanoma Cells by a bcl-2/bcl-xL Bispecific Antisense Oligonucleotide Clin. Cancer Res., May 1, 2001; 7(5): 1446 - 1451. [Abstract] [Full Text] |
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C. Klein, G. Georges, K.-P. Kunkele, R. Huber, R. A. Engh, and S. Hansen High Thermostability and Lack of Cooperative DNA Binding Distinguish the p63 Core Domain from the Homologous Tumor Suppressor p53 J. Biol. Chem., September 28, 2001; 276(40): 37390 - 37401. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] |
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