A team of researchers at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified a new pathway through which mutations in the tumor suppressor p53 gene—found very frequently in human tumors—hijack DNA ...

When scientists first came across p53 in 1979, it was an intriguing but not Earth-shattering discovery. Six groups independently discovered a cellular protein with a molecular weight of roughly 53 ...

The well-known cancer gene, p53, which researchers had thought was less relevant in kidney cancer, may play an important role after all – a discovery that could potentially lead to new treatments. A ...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center investigators and collaborators have tested rezatapopt, an oral p53 reactivator ...

The p53 protein plays a significant role in cell biology as it regulates the cell cycle and halts the formation of tumors. Scientists have long dubbed the protein p53 as the “guardian of the genome,” ...

Researchers identified a novel mechanism by which expression of the tumor suppressor p53 paradoxically promotes liver cancer development in patients with chronic liver disease. By generating a mouse ...

In a recent study published in the Cell Reports journal, researchers assessed the impact of protein adduction on p53 tumor suppressor inhibition. Studies have shown that exposing esophageal cells to ...

The p53 gene is extremely important in cell biology as its role is to regulate the cell cycle and halt the formation of tumors, leading to its nickname the “tumor suppressor gene.” However, previous ...

One of the most extensively studied genes in cancer, TP53 is well known for its role as a tumor suppressor. It senses cellular stress or damage, and in response stops cell division or initiates cell ...

In the 1970s, scientists knew that some viruses and chemicals caused cancer, but they didn’t know how. Arnold Levine, a biologist currently at the Institute for Advanced Study researched DNA viruses ...