Aug 24, 2017

Discovery of a carcinogenic mechanism causing specific malignant lymphoma.

A collaborative research group of Professor Shigeru Chiba and Associate Professor Asamiko Sakata of the University of Tsukuba is involved in the binding of an abnormal protein to the VAV1 protein by the mutation of the RHOA gene found in certain malignant lymphomas, which results in T-cell receptor signaling. Was found to be abnormally activated. Read More –>

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