An anti-cancer Smurf

Cell Biosci. 2012 Mar 19:2:10. doi: 10.1186/2045-3701-2-10.

Authors

Keji Zhao¹, Yun-Bo Shi

Affiliation

¹ Systems Biology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. zhaok@nhlbi.nih.gov.

Abstract

A novel, cancer-fighting function was recently discovered for Smad ubiquitination regulatory factor 2 (Smurf2).