home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- FIGURE 17-2. P53, once its level is high within the cell, can raise
- the levels of P21 to such an extent that the cyclin-dependent kinase
- activation complex does not occur. The absence of this kinase activity
- permits the Rb protein to remain in its unphosphorylated form, in
- which it binds to the transcription factor E2F. This in turn prevents
- the release of E2F and its binding to the transcriptional enhancers of
- the genes necessary for DNA synthesis to occur. DHFR, dihydrofolate
- reductase; PCNA, proliferating cell nuclear antigen. (Deisseroth AB,
- DeVita VT. The cell cycle: probing new molecular determinants of
- resistance and sensitivity to cytotoxic agents. Cancer J Sci Am
- 1995;1:15)
-