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Enzyme meets a surprise target

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An enzyme previously implicated in gene regulation has now been found to have a role in cancer progression, potentiating an intracellular signalling pathway that is driven by a mutated K-Ras protein. See Letter p.283

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Figure 1: SMYD3 potentiates signalling in K-Ras-driven cancer.

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  1. Marian M. Deuker and Martin McMahon are in the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA.,

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