A universal tool to functionally investigate different MLL fusion proteins
N Spilger, T Dingermann, R Marschalek · Klinische Pädiatrie · 2009 · Heft 05
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Zusammenfassung
The number of different MLL fusion genes in pediatric and adult acute leukemia patients has dramatically increased in the past years. Sixty-four different MLL fusion are yet characterized at the molcular level, but only the most frequent recombination partners of MLL have been functionally tested by in vitro (replating assays) or in vivo experiments (mouse experiments). Here, we present an universal retroviral vector system that was designed to investigate different MLL fusions. The vector backbone encodes the N-terminal portion of MLL (exons 1–9) which is fused to different fusion partner sequences by a short i…