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Nature Medicine 10, 1187-1189 (1 November 2004) | doi:10.1038/nm1127;

Short interfering RNA (siRNA) targeting the Lyn kinase induces apoptosis in primary, and drug-resistant, BCR-ABL1(+) leukemia cells

Andrzej Ptasznik , Yuji Nakata , Anna Kalota , Stephen G Emerson & Alan M. Gewirtz

We studied the effects of Lyn ablation on the survival of drug-resistant chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) blast crisis cells using siRNA. Lyn siRNA reduced Lyn protein in both normal hematopoietic cells and BCR-ABL1-expressing (BCR-ABL1(+)) blasts by 80–95%.

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