The FEL (AF-4) protein donates transcriptional activation sequences to Hrx-Fel fusion proteins in leukemias containing t(4;11)(q21;q23) chromosomal translocations

Leukemia Research

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 911-917

  Morrissey, Joseph J ^a   Raney, Shula ^b   Cleary, Michael L ^c  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b Goodwin Biotechnology Inc   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome translocation; Fel; HRX; Leukemia; Transcriptional activation

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 11; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 4; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA CELL; LEUKEMOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSACTIVATION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ADENOVIRUS E1B PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; COS CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PROLINE; PROTO-ONCOGENES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SERINE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0030806686     PISSN: 01452126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-2126(97)00012-X     Document Type: Article

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