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The arsenic-based cure of acute promyelocytic leukemia promotes cytoplasmic sequestration of PML and PML/RARA through inhibition of PML body recycling.
Blood - 26 Jul 2012
Lång Emma, Grudic Amra, Pankiv Serhiy, Bruserud Oystein, Simonsen Anne, Bjerkvig Rolf, Bjørås Magnar, Bøe Stig Ove
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Arsenic in the form of arsenic trioxide (ATO) is used as a therapeutic drug for treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). The mechanism by which this agent cures this disease was previously shown to involve direct interactions between ATO and the promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML), as well as accelerated degradation of the APL-associated fusion oncoprotein PML/retinoic acid receptor α (RARA). Here we...
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