The direct Myc target Pim3 cooperates with other Pim kinases in supporting viability of Myc-induced B-cell lymphomas

Oncotarget

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 448-460

  Forshell, Linus Plym ^a   Li, Yongmei ^a,b   Forshell, Tacha Zi Plym ^a   Rudelius, Martina ^c   Nilsson, Lisa ^a   Keller, Ulrich ^c   Nilsson, Jonas ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

c Myc; Cancer; Lymphoma; Oncogenes; Pim 3

Indexed keywords

A 953864; CASPASE; MESSENGER RNA; MYC PROTEIN; PIMI; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN KINASE PIM 1; PROTEIN KINASE PIM2; PROTEIN KINASE PIM3; TUMOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CASPASE 3; ONCOPROTEIN; PIM3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTO ONCOGENE PROTEINS PIM; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS PIM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITION KINETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIM3 GENE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; TUMOR GENE; ANIMAL; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; CASPASE 3; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-PIM-1;

EID: 80055113062     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.283     Document Type: Article

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