We would like to thank Dr. Angelika Rück (ILM University of Ulm) for kindly providing the confocal microscope facility, Dr. Michael Schwarz (University of Tübingen) for providing human p53 cDNA and Dr. Lisa Wiesmüller (University of Ulm) for kind gift of Saos-2 osteosarcoma cells. Here, TP53 is linked to osteosarcoma.