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Gene rearrangement: a novel mechanism for MDR-1 gene activation.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 15 Apr 1997
Mickley L A, Spengler B A, Knutsen T A, Biedler J L, Fojo T
Abstract excerpt
Drug resistance, a major obstacle to cancer chemotherapy, can be mediated by MDR-1/P-glycoprotein. Deletion of the first 68 residues of MDR-1 in an adriamycin-selected cell line after a 4;7 translocation, t(4q;7q), resulted in a hybrid mRNA containing sequences from both MDR-1 and a novel chromosome 4 gene. Further selection resulted in amplification of a hybrid gene. Expression of the hybrid mRNA was controlled...
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