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01.06.2018 | Review Article

A review of HPRT and its emerging role in cancer

verfasst von: Michelle H. Townsend, Richard A. Robison, Kim L. O’Neill

Erschienen in: Medical Oncology | Ausgabe 6/2018

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Abstract

Hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) is a common salvage housekeeping gene with a historically important role in cancer as a mutational biomarker. As an established and well-known human reporter gene for the evaluation of mutational frequency corresponding to cancer development, HPRT is most commonly used to evaluate cancer risk within individuals and determine potential carcinogens. In addition to its use as a reporter gene, HPRT also has important functionality in the body in relation to purine regulation as demonstrated by Lesch–Nyhan patients whose lack of functional HPRT leads to significant purine overproduction and further neural complications. This regulatory role, in addition to an established connection between other salvage enzymes and cancer development, points to HPRT as an emerging influence in cancer. Recent work has shown that not only is the enzyme upregulated within malignant tumors, it also has significant surface localization within some cancer cells. With this is mind, HPRT has the potential to become a significant biomarker not only for the characterization of cancer, but also for its potential treatment.
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Metadaten
Titel
A review of HPRT and its emerging role in cancer
verfasst von
Michelle H. Townsend
Richard A. Robison
Kim L. O’Neill
Publikationsdatum
01.06.2018
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Medical Oncology / Ausgabe 6/2018
Print ISSN: 1357-0560
Elektronische ISSN: 1559-131X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12032-018-1144-1

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