MTUS1 (mitochondrial tumor suppressor 1)

MTUS 1 ( mitochondrial tumor suppressor 1 )

Copy number variant in the candidate tumor suppressor gene MTUS1 and familial breast cancer risk.

Copy number variants (CNVs), insertions, deletions and duplications, contribute considerably to human genetic variation and disease development. A recent study has characterized 100 CNVs including a deletion in the mitochondrial tumor suppressor gene 1 (MTUS1) lacking the coding exon 4. MTUS1 maps to chromosome 8p, a region frequently deleted and associated with disease progression in human can...

Loss of Mitochondrial Tumor Suppressor Genes Expression Is Associated with Unfavorable Clinical Outcome in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Data from Retrospective Study

Mitochondrial genes play important roles in cellular energy metabolism, free radical generation, and apoptosis. Dysregulation of these genes have long been suspected to contribute to the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), increased proliferation and progression of cancer. A family of orthologues of yeast silent information regulator 3 (SIRT3), 4 (SIRT4) and mitochondrial tumor suppres...

Regulation of mitochondrial oxidative metabolism by tumor suppressor FLCN.

BACKGROUND Birt-Hogg-Dubé (BHD) syndrome is a hereditary hamartoma syndrome that predisposes patients to develop hair follicle tumors, lung cysts, and kidney cancer. Genetic studies of BHD patients have uncovered the causative gene, FLCN, but its function is incompletely understood. METHODS Mice with conditional alleles of FLCN and/or peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivat...

Is 15-LOX-1 a tumor suppressor?

A number of enzymes in the cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase pathways process fatty acids to generate a variety of bioactive lipids. Recent findings that link inflammation to carcinogenesis have started to reveal how these bioactive lipids function in cellular signaling pathways as lipid messengers that mediate responses to cellular injury through inflammatory processes (1). Downstream effects of...