Leukemia proto-oncoprotein MLL forms a SET1-like histone methyltransferase complex with menin to regulate Hox gene expression

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 5639-5649

  Yokoyama, Akihiko ^a   Wang, Zhong ^a   Wysocka, Joanna ^b,d   Sanyal, Mrinmoy ^a   Aufiero, Deborah J ^b   Kitabayashi, Issay ^c   Herr, Winship ^b   Cleary, Michael L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE METHYLTRANSFERASE; HOST CELL FACTOR 1; HOST CELL FACTOR 2; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ASH 2; PROTEIN MENIN; PROTEIN P300; PROTEIN SET1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HOX GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MEN1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; YEAST;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOST CELL FACTOR C1; HUMANS; K562 CELLS; LEUKEMIA; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FRAXINUS; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 2942715029     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.13.5639-5649.2004     Document Type: Article

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