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Comments by Kei-ichi Nakayama, a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Cells proliferate. Cells differentiate. Cells also occasionally stop and take a break from all of that activity. How they get from point A to point B, and how they decide when to take a breather (referred to in technical circles as cell-cycle arrest), is a subject of intense research.
"There has been remarkable progress regarding p27 status and cancer."--Kei-ichi Nakayama Many proteins play roles in the process. In particular, a series of cyclin-dependent kinase complexes (CDKs) promote progression from rest phase (G) to the DNA synthesis (S) phase to cell ...
