Oncogenic transcription factors in the human acute leukemias

AT Look - Science, 1997 - science.org
Chromosomal translocations in the human acute leukemias rearrange the regulatory and
coding regions of a variety of transcription factor genes. The resultant protein products can …

Deconstructing a Disease: RAR, Its Fusion Partners, and Their Roles in the Pathogenesis of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

A Melnick, JD Licht - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 1999 - ashpublications.org
IN THE LATE 1980s and early 1990s, the elucidation of the molecular basis of acute
promyelocytic leukemia (APL) emerged as a paradigm for the connection between the …

MLL translocations specify a distinct gene expression profile that distinguishes a unique leukemia

SA Armstrong, JE Staunton, LB Silverman, R Pieters… - Nature …, 2002 - nature.com
Acute lymphoblastic leukemias carrying a chromosomal translocation involving the mixed-
lineage leukemia gene (MLL, ALL1, HRX) have a particularly poor prognosis. Here we show …

[HTML][HTML] Hoxa9 transforms primary bone marrow cells through specific collaboration with Meis1a but not Pbx1b

E Kroon, J Krosl, U Thorsteinsdottir, S Baban… - The EMBO …, 1998 - embopress.org
Abstract Hoxa9, Meis1 and Pbx1 encode homeodomaincontaining proteins implicated in
leukemic transformation in both mice and humans. Hoxa9, Meis1 and Pbx1 proteins have …

Analysis of TALE superclass homeobox genes (MEIS, PBC, KNOX, Iroquois, TGIF) reveals a novel domain conserved between plants and animals

TR Bürglin - Nucleic acids research, 1997 - academic.oup.com
A new Caenorhabditis elegans homeobox gene, ceh-25, is described that belongs to the
TALE superclass of atypical homeodomains, which are characterized by three extra …

Fusion between CIC and DUX4 up-regulates PEA3 family genes in Ewing-like sarcomas with t(4;19)(q35;q13) translocation

M Kawamura-Saito, Y Yamazaki… - Human molecular …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Ewing's family tumors (EFTs) are highly malignant tumors arising from bone and soft tissues
that exhibit EWS–FLI1 or variant EWS–ETS gene fusions in more than 85% of the cases …

Transformation of myeloid progenitors by MLL oncoproteins is dependent on Hoxa7 and Hoxa9

PM Ayton, ML Cleary - Genes & development, 2003 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Transcriptional deregulation through the production of dominant-acting chimeric
transcription factors derived from chromosomal translocations is a common theme in the …

The pathogenesis of mixed-lineage leukemia

AG Muntean, JL Hess - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Aggressive leukemias arise in both children and adults as a result of rearrangements to the
mixed-lineage leukemia gene (MLL) located on chromosome 11q23. MLL encodes a large …

NUP98 gene fusions and hematopoietic malignancies: common themes and new biologic insights

SM Gough, CI Slape, PD Aplan - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2011 - ashpublications.org
Structural chromosomal rearrangements of the Nucleoporin 98 gene (NUP98), primarily
balanced translocations and inversions, are associated with a wide array of hematopoietic …

Fusion of the nucleoporin gene NUP98 to HOXA9 by the chromosome translocation t(7;11)(p15;p15) in human myeloid leukaemia

T Nakamura, DA Largaespada, MP Lee, LA Johnson… - Nature …, 1996 - nature.com
Abstract Expression of HoxaT and Hoxa9 is activated by proviral integration in BXH2 murine
myeloid leukaemias. This result, combined with the map** of the HOXA locus to human …