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BCR-ABL alternative splicing as a common mechanism for imatinib resistance: evidence from molecular dynamics simulations.
Molecular cancer therapeutics - 1 Dec 2008
Lee Tai-Sung, Ma Wanlong, Zhang Xi, Giles Francis, Cortes Jorge, Kantarjian Hagop, Albitar Maher
Abstract excerpt
Rare cases of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) express high levels of alternatively spliced BCR-ABL mRNA with a 35-bp insertion (35INS) between ABL kinase domain exons 8 and 9. This insertion results in a frameshift leading to the addition of 10 residues and truncation of 653 residues due to early termination. Sensitive PCR-based testing showed that 32 of 52 (62%) imatinib-resistant CML patients in chronic...
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