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  • Cancer-causing bacterium targets tumor-suppressor protein

    University of Illinois medical biochemistry professor Lin-Feng Chen and graduate students Ying-Huang Nicole Tsang, middle, and Acacia Lamb discovered a mechanism directly linking a protein associated with H. pylori infection of the stomach and stomach cancer.

    University of Illinois medical biochemistry professor Lin-Feng Chen and graduate students Ying-Huang Nicole Tsang, middle, and Acacia Lamb discovered a mechanism directly linking a protein associated with H. pylori infection of the stomach and stomach cancer.

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  • Editor's note: To contact Lin-Feng Chen, call 217-333-7764; lfchen@life.illinois.edu. Contact the Oncogene press office at press@nature.com for a copy of the paper, “Helicobacter pylori CagA Targets Gastric Tumor Suppressor RUNX3 for Proteasome-mediated Degradation.”