The human ALL-1/MLL/HRX antigen is predominantly localized in the nucleus of resting and proliferating peripheral blood mononuclear cells

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2035-2041

  Ennas, Maria Grazia ^a   Sorio, Claudio ^c   Greim, Ralf ^b   Nieddu, Mariella ^a   Scarpa, Aldo ^c   Orlandini, Simonetta ^c   Croce, Carlo M ^d   Fey, Georg H ^b   Marschalek, Rolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MITOGENS; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PROTO-ONCOGENES; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0030912510     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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