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SUBMITTER: Wang WH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4187708 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Wen-Horng WH Childress Michael O MO Geahlen Robert L RL
Molecular and cellular biology 20140804 20
The Syk protein tyrosine kinase, a well-characterized regulator of immune cell function, plays an increasingly recognized role in tumorigenesis as a promoter of cell survival in both hematological and nonhematological malignancies. We show here that the expression of Syk in MCF7 or MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells or in DG75 B-lymphoma cells protects cells from apoptosis induced by oxidative or genotoxic stress by stabilizing the mRNA for Bcl-x(L), an antiapoptotic protein. Syk binds robustly to n ...[more]