AFF4, a Component of the ELL/P-TEFb Elongation Complex and a Shared Subunit of MLL Chimeras, Can Link Transcription Elongation to Leukemia

Molecular Cell

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 429-437

  Lin, Chengqi ^a   Smith, Edwin R ^a   Takahashi, Hidehisa ^a   Lai, Ka Chun ^a   Martin Brown, Skylar ^a   Florens, Laurence ^a   Washburn, Michael P ^a   Conaway, Joan W ^a,b   Conaway, Ronald C ^a,b   Shilatifard, Ali ^a  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

HUMDISEASE; PROTEINS; RNA

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PROTEIN AFF4; PROTEIN ELL; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA CELL; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MLL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HELA CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; POSITIVE TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTOR B; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

METAZOA;

EID: 75949126139     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2010.01.026     Document Type: Article

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