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Targeting the IDH2 Pathway in Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15 Oct 2018
Amaya Maria L, Pollyea Daniel A
Abstract excerpt
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive disease with a poor prognosis. A large percentage of patients succumb to this disease in spite of aggressive treatments with chemotherapy. Recent advances with mutational analysis led to the discovery of isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutations in AML. IDH2 is an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidative decarboxylation of isocitrate to α-ketoglutarate; its mutated version...
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