However, the inhibition of the effects of PMA on the expression of SERCA3 and of other differentiation markers by PKC inhibitors indicates that PKC activation is the essential initiating step of the pharmacologically induced differentiation process that leads to the induction of SERCA3 expression in E2A-PBX1-expressing t(1;19) precursor B ALL cells. Here, ATP2A3 is linked to acute lymphoblastic leukemia.