Bringing Down Cancer Aircraft: Searching for Essential Hypomutated Proteins in Skin Melanoma.

We propose an approach to detection of essential genes/proteins required for cancer cell survival. A gene is considered essential if a mutation with high impact upon the function of encoded protein causes death of the cancer cell. We draw an analogy between essential cancer proteins and well-known A...

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Main Authors: Mikhail Pyatnitskiy, Dmitriy Karpov, Ekaterina Poverennaya, Andrey Lisitsa, Sergei Moshkovskii
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4643971?pdf=render