| First Author | Inaba T | Year | 1992 |
| Journal | Science | Volume | 257 |
| Issue | 5069 | Pages | 531-4 |
| PubMed ID | 1386162 | Mgi Jnum | J:18114 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:66130 | Doi | 10.1126/science.1386162 |
| Citation | Inaba T, et al. (1992) Fusion of the leucine zipper gene HLF to the E2A gene in human acute B-lineage leukemia. Science 257(5069):531-4 |
| abstractText | A t(17;19) chromosomal translocation in early B-lineage acute leukemia was shown to result in chimeric transcripts that contain sequences from the E2A basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor gene on chromosome 19, fused to sequences from a previously unidentified gene (HLF) on chromosome 17 that encodes a hepatic leukemia factor. The chimeric protein consisted of the amino-terminal transactivation domain of E2A linked to the carboxyl-terminal basic region-leucine zipper domain of HLF. HLF was normally expressed in liver and kidney, but not in lymphoid cells, and was found to be closely related to the leucine zipper-containing transcription factors DBP (albumin D-box binding protein) and TEF (thyrotroph embryonic factor), which regulate developmental stage-specific gene expression. |
