Identification of a novel activating mutation (Y842C) within the activation loop of FLT3 in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

Blood

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 335-340

  Kindler, Thomas ^b   Breitenbuecher, Frank ^b   Kasper, Stefan ^b   Estey, Eli ^b   Giles, Francis ^b   Feldman, Eric ^b   Ehninger, Gerhard ^b   Schiller, Gary ^b   Klimek, Virginia ^b   Nimer, Stephen D ^b   Gratwohl, Alois ^b   Choudhary, Chuna Ram ^b   Mueller Tidow, Constan ^b   Serve, Hubert ^b   Gschaidmeier, Harald ^b   Cohen, Pamela S ^b   Huber, Christoph ^b   Fischer, Thomas ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 3; MIDOSTAURIN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; STAT5 PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 3;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXON; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 19944427369     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-02-0660     Document Type: Article

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