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Characterization of BCR-ABL deletion mutants from patients with chronic myeloid leukemia.
Leukemia - 1 Jun 2008
Sherbenou D W, Hantschel O, Turaga L, Kaupe I, Willis S, Bumm T, Press R D, Superti-Furga G, Druker B J, Deininger M W
Abstract excerpt
The BCR-ABL oncogenic tyrosine kinase causes chronic myeloid leukemia and is the target for imatinib therapy. During imatinib treatment, cells are selected in some patients with BCR-ABL kinase domain mutations that render decreased drug sensitivity. In addition, some patients express deletion mutants of BCR-ABL, apparently due to missplicing. Most commonly these deletion mutants lack a significant portion of the...
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