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ReviewCell2017

Putting p53 in Context.

Edward R Kastenhuber, Scott W Lowe

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Review in Cell, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1,210 papers.

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1,210citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1,210 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Role of the MDM2/p53 axis in regulating cisplatin response in tumor cells.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  5. Mutant p53Molecular oncology · 2026
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  20. The Mutational Landscape of Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Its Impact.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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1,150 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Edward R KastenhuberDepartment of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Scott W LoweDepartment of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, NY 10065, USA. Electronic address: lowes@mskcc.org.

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Hongbiao Carl Lekaye · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Scientific ReagentsP01CA087497 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI LOWE, SCOTT W. · 2000 to 2021
$35.4M
Intratumoral Heterogeneity and Tumor Evolution in LymphomaF31CA192835 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI KASTENHUBER, EDWARD R · 2015 to 2018
$157k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS F31 CA192835NCI NIH HHS P01 CA087497NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

TP53 is the most frequently mutated gene in human cancer. Functionally, p53 is activated by a host of stress stimuli and, in turn, governs an exquisitely complex anti-proliferative transcriptional program that touches upon a bewildering array of biological responses. Despite the many unveiled facets of the p53 network, a clear appreciation of how and in what contexts p53 exerts its diverse effects remains unclear. How can we interpret p53's disparate activities and the consequences of its dysfunction to understand how cell type, mutation profile, and epigenetic cell state dictate outcomes, and how might we restore its tumor-suppressive activities in cancer?

Indexed as

AnimalsEpigenesis, GeneticGenes, p53HumansMutationNeoplasmsTumor Suppressor Protein p53TP53 protein, humanTumor Suppressor Protein p53

Identifiers

PMID28886379
PMCPMC5743327

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