SF3B1 mutations induce R-loop accumulation and DNA damage in MDS and leukemia cells with therapeutic implications

Shalini Singh, Doaa Ahmed, Hamid Dolatshad, Dharamveer Tatwavedi, Ulrike Schulze, Andrea Sanchi, Sarah Ryley, Ashish Dhir, Lee Carpenter, Suzanne M. Watt, David J. Roberts, Amal M. Abdel-Aal, Sohair K. Sayed, Somaia A. Mohamed, Anna Schuh, Paresh Vyas, Sally Killick, Andriana G. Kotini, Eirini P. Papapetrou, Daniel H. WisemanAndrea Pellagatti*, Jacqueline Boultwood*

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66 Citations (Scopus)
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2525-2530
Number of pages6
JournalLeukemia
Volume34
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2020
Externally publishedYes

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Acknowledgements This work was supported by Bloodwise (grant 13042) and by Leukaemia UK (grant PG17/002). We acknowledge Dr Christoffer Lagerholm and Dr Jana Koth for assistance with microscopy. We are grateful to Professor Thomas Webb (SRI International, Menlo Park, CA) and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis, TN) for kindly providing Sudemycin D6. We thank Dr Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA) for kindly gifting us the empty ppyCAG expression vector.

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