Evidence implicating Gfi-1 and Pim-1 in pre-T-cell differentiation steps associated with β-selection

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 5349-5359

  Schmidt, Thorsten ^b   Karsunky, Holger ^b   Rödel, Bernd ^b   Zevnik, Branko ^b   Elsässer, Hans Peter ^a   Möröy, Tarik ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

selection; Gfi 1; Pim 1; Pre T cell development; Zinc finger protein

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; CELL PROTEIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD44; ANTIGENS, CD8; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P27; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, BCL-2; LEUKOPOIESIS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-PIM-1; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; SIGANUS;

EID: 0032531041     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.18.5349     Document Type: Article

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