Cooperation between constitutively activated c-Kit signaling and leukemogenic transcription factors in the determination of the leukemic phenotype in murine hematopoietic stem cells.

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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is caused by the cooperation between class I, mostly mutated receptor tyrosine kinases (RTK), and class II oncoproteins, chimeric transcription factors derived from chromosomal translocations. The blasts of 80-90% of AML-patients are positive for the RTK c-Kit. In about 50% of the 'core binding factor' (CBF)-AMLs, c-Kit harbors additional gain-of-function mutations, whereas the...

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