The Strange Double Life of Dab2
Sometimes proteins do a lot more than we expect. Dab2, for example, has long been linked to cancer. The molecule is associated with a chain of signaling proteins called the Ras-MAPK pathway. In many cancers, elements of Ras-MAPK mutate and start telling cells to grow uncontrollably. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher Xiang-Xi Michael Xu, Ph.D.,…