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...technique allows scientists to directly analyze the p53 protein, rather than perform the painstaking procedure of sequencing each base pair of p53 DNA to search for mutations...
Today's issue of Cancer Research describes the new technique for measuring the activity of a protein which suppresses cancer, especially breast tumors. The test was developed by Medical School researchers led by Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Stephen H. Friend...
...technique detects changes in the protein produced by p53, believed by many experts to be a tumor suppressor gene. Mutations in p53 have been linked to an increased predisposition in many patients for a number of tumors, including breast cancer...
...suggest that the protein may also functionin a similar way to G protein-coupled receptorkinases," MacDonald said yesterday. "We do nothave evidence that this gene is defective inHuntington's disease patients...
MacDonald and Gusella, both members of theMolecular Neurogenetics Unit at the Mass. GeneralHospital Neuroscience Center, reported thediscovery early last month of another candidategene encoding alphadducin, a protein present inhigh concentrations in the brain...