Researchers Identify New, Cancer-Causing Role for Protein

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 13:35 in Biology & Nature

The mainstay immune system protein TRAF6 plays an unexpected, key role activating a cell signaling molecule that in mutant form is associated with cancer growth, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the Aug. 28 edition of Science.

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