Leukemia proto-oncoprotein MLL is proteolytically processed into 2 fragments with opposite transcriptional properties

Blood

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 3710-3718

  Yokoyama, Akihiko ^a,b   Kitabayashi, Issay ^a,b   Ayton, Paul M ^a,b   Cleary, Michael L ^a,b   Ohki, Misao ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0037111567     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2002-04-1015     Document Type: Article

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