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P53 Tumor Protein Analysis

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Topic 3: The role of p53 in genome integrity and cancer

A gene that encodes for a protein to function as a tumor suppressor as well as to regulate the cell cycle are called p53, TP 53 or tumor protein. A mature p53 mRNA is found to be 2.2-2.5 kb in size and can be found mostly in the spleen and thymus, this gene is separated by 10 introns and are split into 11 exons. As said in the chapter one of the “p53 suppressor genes” book, the final product of the p53 genome was first identified as an antigen that bound to a simian virus T antigen and adenovirus E1B oncoproteins. (Mukhopadhyay, Maxwell & Roth 1995). Mutations, deletion, insertion or rearrangement of this gene p53 which changes the biochemical and the biophysical properties is strongly associated with an increase to cancer as the article “p53 in health and disease” describes. (Vousden & Lane 2007). The mutated genes are called oncogenes, where the DNA is altered from its original form. These gene help in growth regulation and division of the cells and are often causes the cells to divide out of control causing cancer to develop from the mutations of the gene p53.
The p53 protein has five highly sustained regions within a cross species amino acid sequence which are also known as domains. Of these five, there are four functional domains, transcriptional activation domain at the N-terminus, …show more content…

The inability of the functionality of these genes disrupts apoptosis, programmed cell death and DNA repair which results in cancer, the regulation and dividing of cells out of

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