The corepressors BCOR and BCORL1: Two novel players in acute myeloid leukemia

Haematologica

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-5

  Tiacci, Enrico ^a   Grossmann, Vera ^b   Martelli, Maria Paola ^a   Kohlmann, Alexander ^b   Haferlach, Torsten ^b   Falini, Brunangelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b MLL MUNICH LEUKEMIA LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCOR PROTEIN; BCORL1 PROTEIN; COREPRESSOR PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; BCOR GENE; BCORL1 GENE; EDITORIAL; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; LEUKEMOGENESIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; X CHROMOSOME;

CO-REPRESSOR PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MUTATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84855225601     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: 15928721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2011.057901     Document Type: Editorial

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