Sentences with phrase «inactivating suppressor»

The virus activates growth - promoting genes in the DNA (oncogenes), at the same time it inactivates suppressor genes that would normally limit cell proliferation and alters the genes that regulate normal, programmed cell death.

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Working with colleagues at St. Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Martin identified two individuals who had the characteristics of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer, which is usually caused by a mutation that inactivates one of a person's two copies of the tumor suppressor gene MLH1, but who showed no signs of mutation.

Up to 90 % of colorectal tumors contain inactivating mutations in a tumor suppressor gene called adenomatous polyposis coli (Apc).

But mutated or dysfunctional Rb is associated with several major cancers and Cyclin D has long been described as an oncogene that promotes cancer because it was believed to inactivate the Rb tumor suppressor function through a process called phosphorylation, which involves phosphate molecules being added to proteins, essentially turning them on or off.

Poor repair of these «double - strand breaks» can activate cancer - causing genes or inactivate tumor - suppressor genes.

p16INK4a and p14ARF tumor suppressor genes are commonly inactivated in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.

They combined the conditional K - ras luciferase mice with mice conditionally inactivated for the p53 tumor suppressor, AMPK, or the LKB1 / STK11 tumor suppressor.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York have determined the three - dimensional structure of a tumor suppressor protein inactivating...

Because DDX3 exhibits tumor suppressor functions, such as a growth - suppressive property and transcriptional activation of the p21waf1 / cip1 promoter, and is inactivated through down - regulation of gene expression or alteration of subcellular localization in tumor cells, all these features together suggest that DDX3 might be a candidate tumor suppressor.

Additionally, alterations of subcellular localization through aberrant splicing or genetic mutations also provide ways to inactivate tumor suppressor genes (50).

This approach would inactivate the DAXX pathway for tumor promotion, and consequently restore the activity of the DAPK1 and DAPK3 tumor suppressors.

According to the two - hit theory of carcinogenesis by Knudson (Knudson 1971), a tumor suppressor is characterized by both copies of the gene being inactivated genetically, thereby eliminating its growth inhibition.

Amplification of the JAK2 locus has been described in Hodgkin disease and mediastinal B - cell lymphoma, 18,19 and biallelic inactivating mutations in suppressor of cytokine signaling - 1 (SOCS - 1), a negative regulator of JAK2, have been identified in mediastinal B - cell lymphoma.20 Genomic analysis of JAK2 and of other JAK - STAT pathway members may lead to the identification of mutations of the JAK - STAT pathway in lymphoid diseases and other malignancies.

These suppressor genes are inactivated in tumors, and since cancer drugs work by reducing the activity of enzymes, they won't work on such suppressors because a drug can't inhibit a gene that is already inactivated.»

These rearrangements involved PGBD5 - specific signal (PSS) sequences at their breakpoints and recurrently inactivated tumor - suppressor genes.

These observations support the notion that BECN1 is a haploid - insufficient tumor suppressor gene and distinguish it from other classic tumor suppressors that require both alleles be inactivated in promoting tumorigenesis.

BRCA1 is a classical tumor suppressor and it is inactivated only when both gene copies / alleles are mutated (one by germ - line mutation and the other by somatic mutation).