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Transcriptional Activation by p53: Mechanisms and Targeted Genes

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Abstract

The best-characterized function of p53, the most renowned tumor suppressor, is that of transcriptional activation. Upon its first description as a regulator of gene expression, p53 was simply thought to bind to an element within the 5′ UTR of a target gene, which would lead to transcription, by the appropriate machinery within the cell. Over the past 10 years however, this process has proven to be much more complex and tightly regulated than originally visualized. From the posttranslational modifications and proteins associated with p53 to the choice of a subset of genes that p53 possesses the capability to activate, the regulation of p53 transcriptional activity exists on several levels. This review will focus on the alterations of p53 protein that control activity of the protein, how genomic binding sites for p53 are presently being found and then finally, how the p53 target gene group is growing and being clustered into subsets of gene families.

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MacLachlan, T., El-Deiry, W. (2005). Transcriptional Activation by p53: Mechanisms and Targeted Genes. In: Zambetti, G.P. (eds) The p53 Tumor Suppressor Pathway and Cancer. Protein Reviews, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30127-5_3

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