The acidic stretch and the C-terminal nuclear export signal motif of NPM1 mutant: are they druggable in AML?

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Fig. 1: Application of the Abd technology to the NPM1 mutant.

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This work was supported by the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC IG 2019 number 23604) and the European Research Council (Advanced Grant 2016 number 740230).

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Falini, B., Gjertsen, B.T. & Andresen, V. The acidic stretch and the C-terminal nuclear export signal motif of NPM1 mutant: are they druggable in AML?.
Leukemia (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-023-02037-1

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