Aberrant chromatin at genes encoding stem cell regulators in human mixed-lineage leukemia

Genes and Development

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 3403-3408

  Guenther, Matthew G ^a   Lawton, Lee N ^a   Rozovskaia, Tatiana ^b   Frampton, Garrett M ^a,c   Levine, Stuart S ^a   Volkert, Thomas L ^a   Croce, Carlo M ^d   Nakamura, Tatsuya ^d   Canaani, Eli ^b   Young, Richard A ^a,c  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Epigenetic; Genome wide; Leukemia; Stem cell; Transcription

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA AF4 PROTEIN; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CELL RENEWAL; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MODIFICATION;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, LEUKEMIC; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 58049220979     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1741408     Document Type: Article

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