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SUBMITTER: Liu R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2715174 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Runhua R Wang Lizhong L Chen Guoyun G Katoh Hiroto H Chen Chong C Liu Yang Y Zheng Pan P
Cancer research 20090310 6
p21 loss has been implicated in conferring oncogenic activity to known tumor suppressor gene KLF4 and cancer drug tamoxifen. Regulators of p21, therefore, play critical roles in tumorigenesis. Here, we report that X-linked tumor suppressor FOXP3 is essential for p21 expression in normal epithelia and that lack of FOXP3 is associated with p21 down-regulation in breast cancer samples. A specific FOXP3 binding site in the intron 1 is essential for p21 induction by FOXP3. FOXP3 specifically inhibite ...[more]