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Mammary glands can exhibit impaired involution and tumors

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 8th, 2006

According to recently published research from the United States, Mnt-deficient mammary glands exhibit impaired involution and tumors with characteristics of Myc overexpression.

"The proto-oncogene c-Myc plays a central role in cell growth and the development of human tumors. c-Myc interacts with Max and Myc-Max complexes bind to E-box and related sequences to activate transcription. Max also interacts with Mnt but Mnt-Max complexes repress transcription when bound to these sequences," wrote K. Toyooka and colleagues, University California San Diego.

"MNT maps to human chromosome 17p13.3, a region frequently deleted in various human tumors, including...

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