Cryptic splice site activation during RNA processing of MLL/AF4 chimeric transcripts in infants with t(4;11) positive ALL

Gene

Volumn 247, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 111-118

  Divoky, Vladimir ^a,b   Trka, Jan M ^a,c   Watzinger, Franz ^a   Lion, Thomas ^a  

^a ST ANNA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OLOMOUC   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Infant leukemia; MLL AF4 transcript variants; Non consensus splice sites

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOGENETICS; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INFANT; MOLECULAR CLONING; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRONS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L1; MUTATION; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTO-ONCOGENES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0034682061     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00111-6     Document Type: Article

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