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Mayo Clinic researchers find that protein believed to protect against cancer has a Mr. Hyde side

Date:9/3/2009

tances also inhibits tumor cell invasion. "This is an important protein that dogma said acts as an oncogene but which Dr. Toker demonstrated could also inhibit cancer spread, and thus may act as a suppressor for metastasis," Dr. Storz says.

Because Akt is an important negative-regulator of FOXO3a, the team looked at whether FOXO3a was actually the player with the Jekyll and Hyde split personality. They found that the transcription factor does indeed revert to its dangerous persona when a cancer cell becomes starved. "Our hypothesis is that if a cancer cell doesn't get the nutrients it needs, it turns on FOXO3a, which leads to the migration and invasion of tumor cells into areas with better growth conditions," Dr. Storz says. "This data fits neatly with Dr. Toker's findings about Akt, because Akt targets FOXO3a."

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