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Targeting BTK for the treatment of FLT3-ITD mutated acute myeloid leukemia.
Scientific reports - 21 Aug 2015
Pillinger Genevra, Abdul-Aziz Amina, Zaitseva Lyubov, Lawes Matthew, MacEwan David J, Bowles Kristian M, Rushworth Stuart A
Abstract excerpt
Approximately 20% of patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) have a mutation in FMS-like-tyrosine-kinase-3 (FLT3). FLT3 is a trans-membrane receptor with a tyrosine kinase domain which, when activated, initiates a cascade of phosphorylated proteins including the SRC family of kinases. Recently our group and others have shown that pharmacologic inhibition and genetic knockdown of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK)...
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