Transformation from committed progenitor to leukaemia stem cell initiated by MLL-AF9

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7104, 2006, Pages 818-822

  Krivtsov, Andrei V ^a   Twomey, David ^a,d   Feng, Zhaohui ^b   Stubbs, Matthew C ^a   Wang, Yingzi ^a   Faber, Joerg ^a   Levine, Jason E ^a,b   Wang, Jing ^b   Hahn, William C ^b,d   Gilliland, D Gary ^c,e   Golub, Todd R ^b,d,e   Armstrong, Scott A ^a,b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOLOGY; TISSUE; TUMORS;

ANTI-CANCER THERAPY; CANCER STEM CELLS; LEUKAEMIAS;

CELL CULTURE;

HYBRID PROTEIN; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; MLL AF9 FUSION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE TREATMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN; RODENT; TRANSFORMATION; TUMOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER STEM CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LEUKEMIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 33746498580     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04980     Document Type: Article

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