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Nature Cell Biology 11, 239 - 241 (2009)
doi:10.1038/ncb0309-239

Breast cancer quality control

Cam Patterson1 & Sarah Ronnebaum1

  1. Cam Patterson and Sarah Ronnebaum are in the Division of Cardiology and Carolina Cardiovascular Biology Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 8200 Medical Biomolecular Research Building, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7126, USA.
    e-mail: cpatters@med.unc.edu


Tumorigenesis is regulated by several mechanisms including signalling, transcription and DNA replication. Now a cytoplasmic protein quality-control pathway is implicated in the suppression of breast cancer cell growth, suggesting a new role for quality-control mechanisms in suppressing cells with malignant potential.

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