The leukemogenic fusion of MLL with ENL creates a novel transcriptional transactivator

Leukemia

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1525-1533

  Schreiner, S A ^a   Garcia Cuellar M P ^a   Fey, G H ^a   Slany, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ENL; Leukemia; MLL ALL1 HRX; t(11; 19); Transcription; Translocation

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME 19P; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 11; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMOGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSACTIVATION;

EID: 0344466803     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2401534     Document Type: Article

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