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Messing up disorder: how do missense mutations in the tumor suppressor protein APC lead to cancer?

Overview of attention for article published in Molecular Cancer, August 2011
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Title
Messing up disorder: how do missense mutations in the tumor suppressor protein APC lead to cancer?
Published in
Molecular Cancer, August 2011
DOI 10.1186/1476-4598-10-101
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Authors

David P Minde, Zeinab Anvarian, Stefan GD Rüdiger, Madelon M Maurice

Abstract

Mutations in the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) tumor suppressor gene strongly predispose to development of gastro-intestinal tumors. Central to the tumorigenic events in APC mutant cells is the uncontrolled stabilization and transcriptional activation of the protein β-catenin. Many questions remain as to how APC controls β-catenin degradation. Remarkably, the large C-terminal region of APC, which spans over 2000 amino acids and includes critical regions in downregulating β-catenin, is predicted to be natively unfolded. Here we discuss how this uncommonly large disordered region may help to coordinate the multiple cellular functions of APC. Recently, a significant number of germline and somatic missense mutations in the central region of APC were linked to tumorigenesis in the colon as well as extra-intestinal tissues. We classify and localize all currently known missense mutations in the APC structure. The molecular basis by which these mutations interfere with the function of APC remains unresolved. We propose several mechanisms by which cancer-related missense mutations in the large disordered domain of APC may interfere with tumor suppressor activity. Insight in the underlying molecular events will be invaluable in the development of novel strategies to counter dysregulated Wnt signaling by APC mutations in cancer.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Unknown 198 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 47 23%
Student > Bachelor 40 20%
Researcher 29 14%
Student > Master 24 12%
Other 10 5%
Other 27 13%
Unknown 27 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 63 31%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 57 28%
Medicine and Dentistry 25 12%
Chemistry 8 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 5 2%
Other 16 8%
Unknown 30 15%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 October 2023.
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