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This work was supported by the Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC IG 2019 number 23604) and the European Research Council (Advanced Grant 2016 number 740230).
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Falini, B., Gjertsen, B.T. & Andresen, V. The acidic stretch and the C-terminal nuclear export signal motif of NPM1 mutant: are they druggable in AML?. Leukemia 37, 2173–2175 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41375-023-02037-1
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