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Colorectal cancer: mutations in a signalling pathway |
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| Authors: | Parsons D Williams Wang Tian-Li Samuels Yardena Bardelli Alberto Cummins Jordan M DeLong Laura Silliman Natalie Ptak Janine Szabo Steve Willson James K V Markowitz Sanford Kinzler Kenneth W Vogelstein Bert Lengauer Christoph Velculescu Victor E |
| Institution: | The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21231, USA. |
| Abstract: | Protein kinases are enzymes that are important for controlling cellular growth and invasion, and their malfunction is implicated in the development of some tumours. We analysed human colorectal cancers for genetic mutations in 340 serine/threonine kinases and found mutations in eight genes, including in three members of the phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase (PI(3)K) pathway. The discovery of this mutational activation of a key cell-signalling pathway may provide new targets for therapeutic intervention. |
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