Thursday 17 May 2018

Prolactin Induced Protein (PIP) is a potential biomarker for early stage and malignant breast cancer



 by Anju Gangadharan, Themba Nyirenda, Kishan Patel, Nydia Jaimes-Delgadillo, Dominique Coletta, Takemi Tanaka, Ayal C. Walland, Zena Jameel, Srinivasa Vedantam, Sittinon Tang, Ciaran Mannion, Grace Y. Lee, Andre Goy, Andrew Pecora, K. Stephen Suh  


The Breast June 2018 Volume 39, Pages 101–109

Breast cancer (BC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women. Bioinformatic analysis and expression screening showed that Prolactin Induced Protein (PIP) was differentially expressed in BC. The objective of this investigation was to characterize the expression pattern of PIP, an aspartyl proteinase, in malignant and non-malignant breast tissues.