| Literature DB >> 9360930 |
V Lacronique1, A Boureux, V D Valle, H Poirel, C T Quang, M Mauchauffé, C Berthou, M Lessard, R Berger, J Ghysdael, O A Bernard.
Abstract
The Janus family of tyrosine kinases (JAK) plays an essential role in development and in coupling cytokine receptors to downstream intracellular signaling events. A t(9;12)(p24;p13) chromosomal translocation in a T cell childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia patient was characterized and shown to fuse the 3' portion of JAK2 to the 5' region of TEL, a gene encoding a member of the ETS transcription factor family. The TEL-JAK2 fusion protein includes the catalytic domain of JAK2 and the TEL-specific oligomerization domain. TEL-induced oligomerization of TEL-JAK2 resulted in the constitutive activation of its tyrosine kinase activity and conferred cytokine-independent proliferation to the interleukin-3-dependent Ba/F3 hematopoietic cell line.Entities:
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Year: 1997 PMID: 9360930 DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5341.1309
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728