ζ-crystallin is a bcl-2 mRNA binding protein involved in bcl-2 overexpression in T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia

FASEB Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1852-1865

  Lapucci, Andrea ^a,b,c   Lulli, Matteo ^a,b,c   Amedei, Amedeo ^a,c   Papucci, Laura ^a,b   Witort, Ewa ^a,b   Di Gesualdo, Federico ^a,b,c   Bertolini, Francesco ^d   Brewer, Gary ^c,e   Nicolin, Angelo ^f   Bevilacqua, Annamaria ^f   Schiavone, Nicola ^a   Morello, Dominique ^c,g   Donnini, Martino ^a,b,c   Capaccioli, Sergio ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO TOSCANO TUMORI   (Italy)

^c Phoenix Stem Cell Foundation for Human Life   (Italy)

^d EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^e RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^g Centre de Biologie du Developpement Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

ARE binding protein; Cancer; Post transcriptional control

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA ACTIN; DACTINOMYCIN; GLUTAMINASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; POLYADENYLIC ACID; PROTEIN BCL 2; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; URACIL; ZETA CRYSTALLIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA BINDING; RNA STABILITY; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; T CELL LEUKEMIA; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PRECURSOR T-CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; ZETA-CRYSTALLINS;

EID: 77953509407     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.09-140459     Document Type: Article

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