Three proteins may play a key role in female fertility and cancer biology

Research may lead to treatment of certain forms of infertility and fight against aggressive cancer

According to Rogers-led research, the three proteins interact with each other in surprisingly tortuous lines in female mice, a finding that may play an important role in female fertility and cancer biology.

Senior research author Karen Schindler is an associate professor at the Department of Genetics at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, specializing in infertility research, and the unexpected complexity of these proteins' mutual regulation does not occur in any other healthy cell type. occur.

The three proteins are Aurora kinase A (AURKA), AURKB and AURKC, and the study was published in the journal Current Biology.

"Our research can provide a way to diagnose and treat certain types of infertility in early abortions," said Schindler, who works at the School of Arts and Sciences.