Replacement of pre-T cell receptor signaling functions by the CD4 coreceptor

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 121-130

  Norment, Anne M ^a   Forbush, Katherine A ^a   Nguyen, Nhan ^a   Malissen, Marie ^c   Perlmutter, Roger M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMOCYTE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA PRIMERS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; LYMPHOCYTE SPECIFIC PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE P56(LCK); MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SRC-FAMILY KINASES; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0031025155     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.185.1.121     Document Type: Article

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