Biochemical controls, proposed

Possible biochemical functions (Quinn et al, 1992) of camosine include control of pH, immunostimulant, wound healing agent, antioxidant, metal-ion chelator, carbonyl scavenger, and antiglycator (Table 3.3). The evidence for some of these proposals is highly varied, however. 

The functional consequences and the biochemical details of the various regulating influences that meet at the p53 protein have only been partially characterized so far. The nature of the integration of p53 into the regulatory network of cell cycle control, DNA damage, DNA repair and apoptosis is unknown in many aspects. The data available at present do, however, permit a general model to be proposed for the function of the p53 protein in tumor formation (Fig. 14.11). 

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