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Lipid rafts are required for Kit survival and proliferation signals.
Blood - 15 Sept 2007
Jahn Thomas, Leifheit Erica, Gooch Stacie, Sindhu Simran, Weinberg Kenneth
Abstract excerpt
In addition to its physiologic role as central regulator of the hematopoietic and reproductive systems, the Kit receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) is pathologically overexpressed in some forms of leukemia and constitutively activated by oncogenic mutations in mast-cell proliferations and gastrointestinal stromal tumors. To gain insight into the general activation and signaling mechanisms of RTKs, we investigated the...
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