Proteolytic cleavage of MLL generates a complex of N- and C-terminal fragments that confers protein stability and subnuclear localization.

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Published in Mol Cell Biol on January 01, 2003

Authors

James J-D Hsieh1, Patricia Ernst, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Paul Tempst, Stanley J Korsmeyer

Author Affiliations

1: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

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