Of mice and men: how an oncogene transgresses the limits and predisposes to T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

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The gene encoding LIM-only 2 (LMO2), an oncogenic transcription factor, is frequently activated in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), but how LMO2 transforms primary hematopoietic cells to induce T-ALL remains an open question. McCormack et al. now show that, in mice, Lmo2 confers self-renewal potential on normally nonrenewing thymocyte progenitor cells, and this property is maintained over four serial...

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