NK-like homeodomain proteins activate NOTCH3-signaling in leukemic T-cells

BMC Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 371-

  Nagel, Stefan ^a   Venturini, Letizia ^b   Przybylski, Grzegorz K ^c   Grabarczyk, Piotr ^d   Meyer, Corinna ^a   Kaufmann, Maren ^a   Battmer, Karin ^b   Schmidt, Christian A ^d   Drexler, Hans G ^a   Scherr, Michaela ^b   MacLeod, Roderick A F ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTCH3 RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GRG1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HEY1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MINT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MSX2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SHARP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SPEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TLE1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TLX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD34 SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LENTIVIRINAE; LEUKEMIA CELL; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 70450225394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-371     Document Type: Article

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