Moffitt researchers identify protein that causes epithelial cancers to spread

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) In a new article published in the July issue of Cancer Research, Elsa Flores, Ph.D., and her team discovered a key protein that oscillates its expression through microRNA regulation to facilitate cancer spread to distant organs. This protein is deltaNp63, a member of the p53 family of tumor suppressor genes.