A dominant-negative mutant of c-Jun inhibits cell cycle progression during the transition of CD4-CD8- to CD4+CD8+ thymocytes

International Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1203-1215

  King, Leslie B ^c,d   Tolosa, Eva ^c   Lenczowski, Joi M ^c   Lu, Frank ^c   Lind, Evan F ^a   Hunziker, Rosemarie ^b   Petrie, Howard T ^a   Ashwell, Jonathan D ^c  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular differentiation; Thymus; Transcription factor; Transgenic knockout

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C JUN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, JUN; INTERLEUKIN-2; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032765070     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/11.8.1203     Document Type: Article

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