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SUBMITTER: Prendergast GC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2874822 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Prendergast George C GC Muller Alexander J AJ Ramalingam Arivudanambi A Chang Mee Young MY
Biochimica et biophysica acta 20080918 1
The evolutionarily conserved amphiphysin-like genes Bin1 and Bin3 function in membrane and actin dynamics, cell polarity, and stress signaling. Recent genetic studies in mice discriminate non-essential roles in endocytic processes commonly ascribed to amphiphysins from essential roles in cancer suppression. Bin1 acts in default pathways of apoptosis and senescence that are triggered by the Myc and Raf oncogenes in primary cells, and Bin1 gene products display a 'moonlighting function' in the nuc ...[more]