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We gratefully acknowledge the technical and administrative assistance from Jason Ho, Jian Liu, Youqi Han, Andrea Arruda, Narmin Ibrahimova, and Genna Luciani. We thank G. S. Vassiliou and P. P. Pandolfi for respectively providing Npm1loxp-cA/+ mice and NPM1c antibody. We thank Dr D. Herlyn of the Wistar Institute for the generous gift of lentiviral shNPM1 plasmids. We give thanks to Dr C. J. Sherr for the generous provision of the pcDNA3.1-FLAG-full length NPM1 and NPM1 deletion mutant constructs. The Minden lab is funded by grants from the Canadian Institute for Cancer Research, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, the Orsino Chair in Leukemia Research, and the Wendy Eisen Foundation. The Stambolic lab and the Zacksenhaus lab are funded by grants from Canadian Cancer Society. We are very grateful to Muriel Matthews and Eric Mills for their help with the editing of the manuscript.
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ZR, MDM, EZ, MS, TWM, RAC and TS developed the concepts and designed the experiments. ZR, MS, TS and JAW performed the experiments. ZR, MS, TS, JAW, TM, LM, RAC, EZ, MDM and VS analyzed data. ZR, MS, TS, EZ, MDM and VS wrote the manuscript.
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Ren, Z., Shrestha, M., Sakamoto, T. et al. Opposing effects of NPM1wt and NPM1c mutants on AKT signaling in AML. Leukemia 34, 1172–1176 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-019-0621-7
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