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EML4

Echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EML4 gene.[1]

This protein is involved in cancers when spliced with the anaplastic lymphoma kinase.[2]

References

References

  1. “Entrez Gene: EML4 echinoderm microtubule associated protein like 4”.
  2. Choi YL, Takeuchi K, Soda M, Inamura K, Togashi Y, Hatano S, Enomoto M, Hamada T, Haruta H, Watanabe H, Kurashina K, Hatanaka H, Ueno T, Takada S, Yamashita Y, Sugiyama Y, Ishikawa Y, Mano H (July 2008). “Identification of novel isoforms of the EML4-ALK transforming gene in non-small cell lung cancer”. Cancer Res. 68 (13): 4971–6. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-07-6158. PMID 18593892.
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