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 …

Downstream molecular pathways of FLT3 in the pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukemia: biology and therapeutic implications

S Takahashi - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2011 - Springer
FLT3 is a type III receptor tyrosine kinase. Mutations of FLT3 comprise one of the most
frequently identified types of genetic alterations in acute myeloid leukemia. One-third of …

Essential role of Plzf in maintenance of spermatogonial stem cells

JA Costoya, RM Hobbs, M Barna, G Cattoretti… - Nature …, 2004 - nature.com
Little is known of the molecular mechanisms whereby spermatogonia, mitotic germ cells of
the testis, self-renew and differentiate into sperm,. Here we show that Zfp145, encoding the …

Plzf is required in adult male germ cells for stem cell self-renewal

FW Buaas, AL Kirsh, M Sharma, DJ McLean… - Nature …, 2004 - nature.com
Adult germline stem cells are capable of self-renewal, tissue regeneration and production of
large numbers of differentiated progeny. We show here that the classical mouse mutant …

The 8; 21 translocation in leukemogenesis

LF Peterson, DE Zhang - Oncogene, 2004 - nature.com
A common chromosomal translocation in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) involves the AML1
(acute myeloid leukemia 1, also called RUNX1, core binding factor protein (CBFα), and …

All in the family: the BTB/POZ, KRAB, and SCAN domains

T Collins, JR Stone, AJ Williams - Molecular and cellular biology, 2001 - Am Soc Microbiol
Understanding the mechanisms by which specific genes are expressed in a temporal or
tissue-specific manner is a central problem in biology. Transcription factors play a key role in …

VDUP1 upregulated by TGF-β1 and 1, 25-dihydorxyvitamin D3 inhibits tumor cell growth by blocking cell-cycle progression

SH Han, JH Jeon, HR Ju, U Jung, KY Kim, HS Yoo… - Oncogene, 2003 - nature.com
Vitamin D 3 upregulated protein 1 (VDUP1) is a 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D 3 (1, 25 (OH) 2 D
3) upregulated protein, and it is induced by various stresses. In human tumor tissues …

The c‐myc promoter: still MysterY and challenge

I Wierstra, J Alves - Advances in cancer research, 2008 - Elsevier
The transcription factor c‐Myc is a key regulator of cell proliferation, cell growth,
differentiation, and apoptosis. Deregulated c‐myc expression possesses a high …

Critical residues within the BTB domain of PLZF and Bcl-6 modulate interaction with corepressors

A Melnick, G Carlile, KF Ahmad, CL Kiang… - … and cellular biology, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
The PLZF (promyelocytic leukemia zinc finger) transcriptional repressor, when fused to
retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARα), causes a refractory form of acute promyelocytic …

Translocations of the RARα gene in acute promyelocytic leukemia

A Zelent, F Guidez, A Melnick, S Waxman, JD Licht - Oncogene, 2001 - nature.com
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) has been recognized as a distinct clinical entity for over
40 years. Although relatively rare among hematopoietic malignancies (approximately 10 …