The leukemia-associated gene MDS1/EVI1 is a new type of GATA-binding transactivator

Leukemia

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 352-358

  Soderholm, J ^a   Kobayashi, H ^a   Mathieu, C ^a   Rowley, J D ^a,b   Nucifora, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b SAITAMA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

3q26; EVI1; GATA 1; MDS1; PR domain

Indexed keywords

TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CANCER GENETICS; CHROMOSOME 3Q; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 3; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXON; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FUSION; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030894543     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2400584     Document Type: Article

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