Bcl-6 mediates the germinal center B cell phenotype and lymphomagenesis through transcriptional repression of the DNA-damage sensor ATR

Nature Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 705-714

  Ranuncolo, Stella Maris ^a   Polo, Jose M ^a   Dierov, Jamil ^b   Singer, Michael ^c   Kuo, Tracy ^d   Greally, John ^c   Green, Roland ^c   Carroll, Martin ^b   Melnick, Ari ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NimbleGen Systems Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATR PROTEIN; CD40 ANTIGEN; DNA; PROTEIN BCL 6; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; B LYMPHOCYTE; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOMA CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA DAMAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL, DIFFUSE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 34250762588     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1478     Document Type: Article

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