Bump keys are keys cut to a special design that will allow them to be used for picking pin-tumbler locks. Pin-tumbler locks are the world's most popular lock, and these include exterior door entry locks for homes. The process of gaining entry using a bump key is called âbumping,â and it can be very effective.
1 An oncogene may cause a cell to secrete growth factors even though it does not normally do so. 2  It will thereby induce its own uncontrolled proliferation (autocrine loop), and proliferation of neighboring cells. 3  It may also cause production of growth hormones in other parts of the body.
In the early 1980s, it was recognized that specific growth factors and activated oncogenes could suppress protein degradation in certain cell types including epithelial cells (22). It was not known, however, which classes of proteins develop longer half-lives during growth or how this response was regulated.