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New publication: Tumorigenesis and inflammation

Tristetraprolin (TTP) is an RNA-binding protein that is known to play a critical role in the resolution of inflammation through the destabilisation of key cytokine transcripts, such as that encoding TNF. Furthermore, decreased expression or function of TTP is consistently observed in many human malignancies. Using loss or gain of function approaches, Assiya Assabban and her colleagues from the lab of Stan Goriely provide in vivo evidence that TTP controls key oncogenic events during skin tumorigenesis, such as the EGFR pathway. These data strongly support the notion that deregulation of AU-rich element (ARE)-mediated mRNA decay could represent a cardinal feature of tumor biology. This work is now published in JCI Insight and is accessible with this link.
January 27th 2021 - 21:13