Guilty as charged: B-RAF is a human oncogene.
RAF proteins are components of a conserved signaling pathway that regulates cellular responses to extracellular signals. Despite over 20 years of research into the regulation and function of the RAF proteins, it was only realized recently that the B-RAF isoform is mutated at a high frequency in human cancer. Here we review the rapid progress made in our understanding of B-RAF as an oncogene and of its role in cancer.
Signal Transduction Team, Cancer Research UK Centre for Cell and Molecular Biology, The Institute of Cancer Research, 237 Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, United Kingdom.
Mathew J
MJ
Garnett
Richard
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Marais
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D009857:Oncogenes / Q000235:genetics*; D048493:Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
C482119:BRAF protein, human; D048493:Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf