**8. The multifunctional proteins, compartments and cancer**

Surprisingly, over the past few decades multifunctional proteins provided the basis of the study of some diseases, including cancer. Alterations and aberrations of the multifunctional proteins regarding their distribution and subcellular localization have been used to diagnose the pathological state. I will consider briefly connexins, β-catenin and kaiso as examples of these proteins and their role in cancer development.
