Description
The tumor suppressor protein p53 functions to regulate diverse cellular processes including apoptosis, cell cycle, senescence and metabolism. Act as a master transcription factor, it can transcriptionally regulate the gene expression of many downstream target genes. p53 is frequently mutated in cancer by single nucleotide/amino acid substitutions at the DNA binding domain that result in a mutant form of p53 protein and usually loses its DNA binding and transcriptional regulation abilities.