Putting p53 in context

ER Kastenhuber, SW Lowe - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
TP53 is the most frequently mutated gene in human cancer. Functionally, p53 is activated by
a host of stress stimuli and, in turn, governs an exquisitely complex anti-proliferative …

Pathogenesis and heterogeneity of ovarian cancer

PT Kroeger Jr, R Drapkin - Current Opinion in Obstetrics and …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
The fallopian tube secretory cell is the cell of origin for the majority of ovarian cancers.
Although it remains unclear what triggers neoplastic transformation of these cells, certain …

Ovarian cancers: genetic abnormalities, tumor heterogeneity and progression, clonal evolution and cancer stem cells

U Testa, E Petrucci, L Pasquini, G Castelli, E Pelosi - Medicines, 2018 - mdpi.com
Four main histological subtypes of ovarian cancer exist: serous (the most frequent),
endometrioid, mucinous and clear cell; in each subtype, low and high grade. The large …

p53 isoforms and their implications in cancer

M Vieler, S Sanyal - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
In this review we focus on the major isoforms of the tumor-suppressor protein p53,
dysfunction of which often leads to cancer. Mutations of the TP53 gene, particularly in the …

More than just scanning: the importance of cap-independent mRNA translation initiation for cellular stress response and cancer

R Lacerda, J Menezes, L Romão - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2017 - Springer
The scanning model for eukaryotic mRNA translation initiation states that the small
ribosomal subunit, along with initiation factors, binds at the cap structure at the 5′ end of …

p53 isoforms as cancer biomarkers and therapeutic targets

L Zhao, S Sanyal - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The well-known tumor suppressor protein p53 plays important roles in
tumor prevention through transcriptional regulation of its target genes. Reactivation of p53 …

Translation acrobatics: how cancer cells exploit alternate modes of translational initiation

A Sriram, J Bohlen, AA Teleman - EMBO reports, 2018 - embopress.org
Recent work has brought to light many different mechanisms of translation initiation that
function in cells in parallel to canonical cap‐dependent initiation. This has important …

The emerging landscape of p53 isoforms in physiology, cancer and degenerative diseases

T Anbarasan, JC Bourdon - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
p53, first described four decades ago, is now established as a master regulator of cellular
stress response, the “guardian of the genome”. p53 contributes to biological robustness by …

[HTML][HTML] The role of truncated p53 isoforms in the DNA damage response

LS Reinhardt, K Groen, C Newton… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2023 - Elsevier
The tumour suppressor p53 is activated following genotoxic stress and regulates the
expression of target genes involved in the DNA damage response (DDR). The discovery that …

Re-appraising the evidence for the source, regulation and function of p53-family isoforms

I López, IL Valdivia, B Vojtesek… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The p53 family of proteins evolved from a common ancestor into three separate genes
encoding proteins that act as transcription factors with distinct cellular roles. Isoforms of each …