Gαq activate α1-Adrenergic receptor

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Loss-of-function mutations in PTC1 permit cell

proliferation in the absence of an Hh signal

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Multi-hit model

LOF mutations in the tumor suppressors APC and p53 and GOF mutation in the oncogene K-RAS establishing that multiple mutations in the same cell are needed for the cancer to form.

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p53

tumor-suppressor gene 

arrest of cells with damaged DNA

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p53

extremely unstable protein and generally does not accumulate to high enough levels to stimulate transcription under normal conditions

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MDM2

catalyzes the ubiquitinylation of p53 & targeting it for proteasomal degradation

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Rapid degradation of p53 is inhibited by ATM and ATR, after DNA damage