Redundant expression but selective utilization of nuclear factor of activated T cells family members

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2735-2740

  Timmerman, Luika A ^a   Healy, James I ^a   Ho, Steffan N ^a,b   Chen, Lei ^a   Goodnow, Christopher C ^a   Crabtree, Gerald R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIOSYNTHESIS; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0031571716     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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