The concentration of RNA and proteins within a cell determines its conformation.
The levels of RNA/protein are like the crests and troughs of a wave, fluctuating high and low concentrations encoding an expression code of RNA/protein.
There is an optimal expression code within a regularly dividing cell.
In a cancer cell, this expression code is altered due to deregulatory epigenetic mechanisms, leading to aberrant expression of oncogenes and tumor suppressors, projecting as a tumor-initiating cell.
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