The leukemogenicity of Hoxa9 depends on alternative splicing

Leukemia

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1838-1843

  Stadler, C R ^a,b   Vegi, N ^c   Mulaw, M A ^c   Edmaier, K E ^c   Rawat, V P S ^c   Dolnik, A ^c   Bullinger, L ^c   Heilmeier, B ^d   Quintanilla Fend, L ^e   Spiekermann, K ^a,b   Hiddemann, W ^a,b   Dohner K ^c   Dohner H ^c   Feuring Buske, M ^c   Buske, C ^c  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^d Barmherzige Brüder Hospital   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HOXA9;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOX GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKEMOGENICITY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLENOMEGALY; STOP CODON; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE; 3T3 CELL LINE; ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; DNA BINDING; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; LEUKEMIA CELL; LEUKEMOGENESIS; STEM CELL;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

EID: 84908301087     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: 14765551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/leu.2014.74     Document Type: Article

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