The DNA-binding drugs mithramycin and chromomycin are powerful inducers of erythroid differentiation of human K562 cells

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 258-265

  Bianchi, Nicoletta ^a   Osti, Fabio ^a   Rutigliano, Cristina ^a   Corradini, Federica Ginanni ^a   Borsetti, Elena ^a   Tomassetti, Marina ^a   Mischiati, Carlo ^a   Feriotto, Giordana ^a   Gambari, Roberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b Dept of Biochem and Molec Biology ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Chromomycin; DNA binding drugs; Erythroid differentiation; K562 cells; Mithramycin

Indexed keywords

CHROMOMYCIN; GAMMA GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITHRAMYCIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRAIN K 562; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DNA BINDING; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GLOBIN GENE; HEMOGLOBIN SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOMYCINS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ERYTHROID PROGENITOR CELLS; GLOBINS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; K562 CELLS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; PLICAMYCIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0032962624     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1999.01173.x     Document Type: Article

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