p53

p53 watches DNA for damage. If it finds too much, it tells the cell to stop dividing — or to self-destruct.

Fun fact

More than half of human tumors have a broken p53.

Words to know

dna
cell
tumor
gene

NGSS alignment

MS-LS3-1Structure & function of proteins
MS-LS1-2Inside the cell

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P04637. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P04637.

About this surface

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