The Prdm family: expanding roles in stem cells and development

T Hohenauer, AW Moore - Development, 2012 - journals.biologists.com
Members of the Prdm family are characterized by an N-terminal PR domain that is related to
the SET methyltransferase domain, and multiple zinc fingers that mediate sequence-specific …

Epigenetics—an epicenter of gene regulation: histones and histone‐modifying enzymes

M Biel, V Wascholowski… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The treatment of cancer through the development of new therapies is one of the most
important challenges of our time. The decoding of the human genome has yielded important …

Genomic instability and myelodysplasia with monosomy 7 consequent to EVI1 activation after gene therapy for chronic granulomatous disease

S Stein, MG Ott, S Schultze-Strasser, A Jauch… - Nature medicine, 2010 - nature.com
Gene-modified autologous hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) can provide ample clinical
benefits to subjects suffering from X-linked chronic granulomatous disease (X-CGD), a rare …

Recurrent inversion breaking intron 1 of the factor VIII gene is a frequent cause of severe hemophilia A

RD Bagnall, N Waseem, PM Green… - Blood, The Journal of …, 2002 - ashpublications.org
The messenger RNA (mRNA) from 5 of 69 patients with severe hemophilia A did not support
amplification of complementary DNA containing the first few exons of the factor VIII (F8) gene …

PRDI-BF1 recruits the histone H3 methyltransferase G9a in transcriptional silencing

I Győry, J Wu, G Fejér, E Seto, KL Wright - Nature immunology, 2004 - nature.com
PRDI-BF1, the human ortholog of mouse Blimp-1, is a DNA-binding protein involved in
postinduction repression of interferon-β gene transcription in response to viral infection …

Clinical, molecular, and prognostic significance of WHO type inv (3)(q21q26. 2)/t (3; 3)(q21; q26. 2) and various other 3q abnormalities in acute myeloid leukemia

S Lugthart, S Gröschel, HB Beverloo… - Journal of clinical …, 2010 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with inv (3)(q21q26. 2)/t (3; 3)(q21; q26. 2)[inv (3)/t
(3; 3)] is recognized as a distinctive entity in the WHO classification. Risk assignment and …

Evi-1 is a critical regulator for hematopoietic stem cells and transformed leukemic cells

S Goyama, G Yamamoto, M Shimabe, T Sato… - Cell stem cell, 2008 - cell.com
Evi-1 has been recognized as one of the dominant oncogenes associated with murine and
human myeloid leukemia. Here, we show that hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in Evi-1 …

High EVI1 levels predict adverse outcome in acute myeloid leukemia: prevalence of EVI1 overexpression and chromosome 3q26 abnormalities underestimated

S Lugthart, E van Drunen, Y van Norden… - Blood, The Journal …, 2008 - ashpublications.org
Inappropriate expression of EVI1 (ecotropic virus integration-1), in particular splice form
EVI1-1D, through chromosome 3q26 lesions or other mechanisms has been implicated in …

PRDM proteins: important players in differentiation and disease

CK Fog, GG Galli, AH Lund - Bioessays, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The PRDM family has recently spawned considerable interest as it has been implicated in
fundamental aspects of cellular differentiation and exhibits expanding ties to human …

Transcription-mediated gene fusion in the human genome

P Akiva, A Toporik, S Edelheit, Y Peretz… - Genome …, 2006 - genome.cshlp.org
Transcription of a gene usually ends at a regulated termination point, preventing the RNA-
polymerase from reading through the next gene. However, sporadic reports suggest that …