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Bim is a suppressor of Myc-induced mouse B cell leukemia.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 20 Apr 2004
Egle Alexander, Harris Alan W, Bouillet Philippe, Cory Suzanne
Abstract excerpt
Impaired apoptosis is now recognized to be central to tumor development. Bcl2, activated by chromosomal translocation in human follicular lymphoma, promotes oncogenesis by inhibiting apoptosis. Bim, a distant proapoptotic relative, is emerging as a major physiologic antagonist of Bcl2. Here, we show that loss of Bim is oncogenic. Bim protein levels were elevated in the apoptosis-prone B lymphoid cells of...
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