Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

The signaling axis atypical protein kinase C λ/ι-Satb2 mediates leukemic transformation of B-cell progenitors

  • R. C. Nayak,
  • S. Hegde,
  • M. J. Althoff,
  • A. M. Wellendorf,
  • F. Mohmoud,
  • J. Perentesis,
  • M. Reina-Campos,
  • D. Reynaud,
  • Y. Zheng,
  • M. T. Diaz-Meco,
  • J. Moscat,
  • J. A. Cancelas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07846-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The upstream pathways regulating leukemic transcriptional plasticity for differentiation arrest and resistance to therapy are unclear. Here the authors show that aPKC λ/ι-controls leukemic B-cell precursor differentiation arrest trough RAC/MEK/ERK/SATB2 epigenetic repression