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Deficiency of Bruton's tyrosine kinase in B cell precursor leukemia cells.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 13 Sept 2005
Feldhahn Niklas, Río Paula, Soh Bonaventure Ndikung Bejeng, Liedtke Stefanie, Sprangers Mieke, Klein Florian, Wernet Peter, Jumaa Hassan, Hofmann Wolf-Karsten, Hanenberg Helmut, Rowley Janet D, Müschen Markus
Abstract excerpt
Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) deficiency results in a differentiation block at the pre-B cell stage. Likewise, acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells are typically arrested at early stages of B cell development. We therefore investigated BTK function in B cell precursor leukemia cells carrying a BCR-ABL1, E2A-PBX1, MLL-AF4, TEL-AML1, or TEL-PDGFRB gene rearrangement. Although somatic mutations of the BTK gene are...
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