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PTOV1

Prostate tumor overexpressed gene 1 protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PTOV1 gene.[1][2][3]


References

References

  1. Santamaria A, Fernandez PL, Farre X, Benedit P, Reventos J, Morote J, Paciucci R, Thomson TM (Feb 2003). “PTOV-1, a novel protein overexpressed in prostate cancer, shuttles between the cytoplasm and the nucleus and promotes entry into the S phase of the cell division cycle”. Am J Pathol. 162 (3): 897–905. doi:10.1016/S0002-9440(10)63885-0. PMC 1868092. PMID 12598323.
  2. Santamaria A, Castellanos E, Gomez V, Benedit P, Renau-Piqueras J, Morote J, Reventos J, Thomson TM, Paciucci R (Feb 2005). “PTOV1 enables the nuclear translocation and mitogenic activity of flotillin-1, a major protein of lipid rafts”. Mol Cell Biol. 25 (5): 1900–11. doi:10.1128/MCB.25.5.1900-1911.2005. PMC 549350. PMID 15713644.
  3. “Entrez Gene: PTOV1 prostate tumor overexpressed gene 1”.
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