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Acute leukaemia in bcr/abl transgenic mice

Nature volume 344, pages 251–253 (1990)Cite this article

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THE Philadelphia chromosome, widely implicated in human leukaemia, is the result of a reciprocal translocation t(9;22) (q34;q11) in which the abl oncogene located at 9q34 is translocated to chromosome 22q11, where it is fused head-to-tail with 5" exons of the bcr gene1–8. In acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, some patients have a breakpoint within the major breakpoint cluster region of the bcr gene, whereas others have the break within its first intron6,9–13. This second type of translocation results in the transcription of a 7.0-kilobase chimaeric bcr/abl messenger RNA translated into a bcr/abl fusion protein, p190, which has an abnormal tyrosine kinase activity and is strongly autophosphorylated in vitro14. We have generated mice transgenic for a bcr/abl p190 DNA construct and find that progeny are either moribund with, or die of acute leukaemia (myeloid or lymphoid) 10–58 days after birth. This finding is evidence for a causal relationship between the Philadelphia chromosome and human leukaemia.

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  1. Section of Molecular Diagnosis, Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, 4650 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90027, USA

    Nora Heisterkamp, Guido Jenster, Joanne ten Hoeve & John Groffen

  2. Section of Hematopathology, Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, 4650 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90027, USA

    Daniel Zovich & Paul K. Pattengale

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Heisterkamp, N., Jenster, G., ten Hoeve, J. et al. Acute leukaemia in bcr/abl transgenic mice. Nature 344, 251–253 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/344251a0

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