An MII-AF9 fusion gene made by homologous recombination causes acute leukemia in chimeric mice: A method to create fusion oncogenes

Cell

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 853-861

  Corral, Javier ^a,b   Lavenir, Isabelle ^a   Impey, Helen ^a   Warren, Alan J ^a   Forster, Alan ^a   Larson, Teresa A ^a   Bell, Sarah ^a,c   McKenzie, Andrew N J ^a   King, Gareth ^a   Rabbitts, Terence H ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; MLL PROTEIN, HUMAN; MLL PROTEIN, MOUSE; MLLT3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MLLT3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LEUKEMIA CELL; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ACUTE DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; EXPERIMENTAL LEUKEMIA; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PROTO ONCOGENE; SPLEEN; STEM CELL; THYMUS;

ANIMALIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE TARGETING; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, EXPERIMENTAL; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ONCOGENES; PROTO-ONCOGENES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SPLEEN; STEM CELLS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 15844394270     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81269-6     Document Type: Article

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