Table 1.

List of p53 target genes that mediate p53 activities.

Cellular Effect	Target genes	References
Cell cycle arrest	p21	(el-Deiry et al., 1993)
	14-3-3-sigma	(Chan et al., 1999; Weber et al., 2002)
	Cdc25	(Resnick-Silverman et al., 1998)
DNA repair	DDIT4	(Ellisen et al., 2002)
	Gadd45	(Canman et al., 1995)
Apoptosis	Puma	(Han et al., 2001; Nakano and Vousden, 2001; Yu et al., 2001)
	Noxa	(Oda et al., 2000)
	Slug	(Inoue et al., 2002)
	Bid	(Mandal et al., 2008)
	Bax	(Miyashita and Reed, 1995)
Stem cell quiescence	Gfi1	(Liu et al., 2009)
	Necdin	(Liu et al., 2009)