“…The human gene is located at chromosome 10q24 (Soejima et al, 1999) and its expression has been reported, for example, in human interleukin 12 (IL-12)-induced natural killer (NK) and T cells (Azzoni et al, 1998), small duct epithelial cells of the normal mammary gland (Soejima et al, 1999;Yoshinaga et al, 1999), a growth-suppressed human neuroendocrine pancreatic carcinoma cells (Stalberg et al, 2001), normal human lung tissue (Chen et al, 2003), or senescent human fibroblasts (Kang et al, 2002). Pdcd4 has been suggested to be linked to the process of apoptosis in response to different inducers (Shibahara et al, 1995;Zhang and DuBois, 2001), and has been shown to be regulated by topoisomerase inhibitors (Onishi et al, 1998), COX-2 inhibitors (Zhang and DuBois, 2001), Myb (Schlichter et al, 2001) and Akt (Palamarchuk et al, 2005). Molecules regulated by Pdcd4 include p21 (Go¨ke et al, 2004), Cdk4, ornithine decarboxylase (Jansen et al, 2005), carbonic anhydrase II (LankatButtgereit et al, 2004) and JNK/c-Jun/AP-1 (Bitomsky et al, 2004;Yang et al, 2006).…”