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Nature Reviews Cancer 2, 951-956 (December 2002) | doi:10.1038/nrc946
Timeline: Polyoma virus middle T antigen and its role in identifying cancer-related molecules
Stephen M. Dilworth1 About the author
Abstract
Most cancer researchers take for granted some of the basic concepts about the molecular changes that underlie tumorigenesis. These include the principles that tyrosine kinases and the phosphorylation of phosphatidylinositol by phosphatidylinositol 3-kinases are important in the signalling pathways that control proliferation and apoptosis, and hence cancer formation. However, how many know that a small DNA mouse virus was crucial in establishing both of these tenets?
Author affiliations
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Stephen Dilworth is at the Department of Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK.
Email: s.dilworth@ic.ac.uk
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