Molecular Biology of the Cell (Sixth Edition)
Molecular Biology of the Cell (Sixth Edition)
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Author: Bruce Alberts, Alexander D. Johnson, Julian Lewis, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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To explain: The reason why the inhibitor should be designed for products of oncogenes or products of tumor suppressor genes

Concept introduction: Proto-oncogenes promote cell survival, cell growth and cell proliferation. Tumor suppressor genes regulate cell growth, cell survival and cell proliferation by inhibiting them. The mutations of proto-oncogenes are dominant or gain of function mutation and mutation of tumor suppressor genes are recessive or loss of function mutation.

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