New insights into the regulation of PTEN tumor suppression function
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 12:49
in Biology & Nature
The PTEN tumor suppressor gene controls numerous biological processes including cell proliferation, cell growth and death. But PTEN is frequently lost or mutated; in fact, alteration of the gene is so common among various types of human cancer that PTEN has become one of the most frequently mutated of all tumor suppressors.